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The Second Coming 
of Christ 



IS HE COMING? 

HOW IS HE COMING? 

WHEN IS HE COMING? 

FOR WHOM IS HE COMING? 



AIMEE SEMPLE McPHERSON 

Office Address: 1100 Glendale Blvd. 

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Copyrighted 1921 
Aimce Semple McPherson 



PREFACE 



Since the blessed Lord go tenderly called the writer 
unto Himself, washed her heart in His blessed blood, 
baptised her with the Holy Spirit, called her from the 
home on a Canadian farm to preach the Gospel and 
began to open the Word before her adoring eyes, the 
Second Coming of Jesus Christ has ever been of all 
things the dearest to her heart. 

Surely, the Coming of the Master draweth nigh. It 
behooves us therefore as His Spirit filled children to 
bear this blessed message of warning and of hope, with- 
out delay to the sleeping world about us. 

"Prepare ye the way of the Lord — make straight 
paths for His feet," was the commission of John the 
Baptist. His first advent. 

"Lift up thy voice in the wilderness of sin and worldi- 
aess and cry, 'Prepare, ye the way of the Lord.' Jesus is 
coming, get ready to meet Him, watch for He is near, 
even at the door," is the message of the awakening 
Church today. 

In these last days the Lord is pouring out His Spirit 
upon all flesh. The time for a mighty revival is upon 
us. Thousands are being saved and sealed with the 
Spirit in this closing hour; so that the reaper is made 
to overtake the plower. Fields stand ripe for the har- 
vest on every hand, and what is to be done must be done 
quickly. 

To this end therefore, this book is lovingly and pray- 
erfully dedicated, not only to those who love His ap- 
pearing, but to those in slumber who have not yet heard 
the call. Oh, that thru these pages they might hear 
the awakening cry of the Holy Spirit; "Behold the 
Bridgegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him," and that 
the writer and the reader may both rise to meet Him 
when He shall appear in the clouds of glory! God grant 
that "This Blessed Hope" may be implanted in every 
heart. For if any man "hath this hope within him, he 
will purify himself," even as Christ is pure, that "when 
He shall appear we shall be like Him, for we shall see 
Him as He is." 

AIMEE SEMPLE McPHERSON. 




Looking forward to that blessed hope. 



The Second Coming of 
Ckrist 



Is He Coming? 

That the Lord Jesus Christ is coming back 
to this earth some day, no honest believer in 
the Word of God can doubt. Most emphat- 
ically, and unmistakably does the sacred 
page declare it. 

In the Old Testament, there are twenty 
times as many references to the second com- 
ing of Christ, as to His first coming. That is, 
twenty times as many references to His com- 
ing as a crowned King, seated upon the 
throne of David, ruling with a rod of iron, 
bringing victory and glory unto Jerusalem, 
and peace upon earth : as to His coming — a 
meek and lowly Jesus, wounded for our 
transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, 
and bleeding as a slain Lamb upon the 
cursed tree. There are twenty times as 
many references to His coming with a 
crown, honored and worshiped by all the 
ends of the earth, as to His coming with a 
cross, and being wounded in the house of His 
friends. 

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Thus it was that the Jews, who had been 
looking for the mighty King, failed to recog- 
nize the lowly Nazarene ; and refuse to rec- 
ognize Him to this day. And yet, the cross 
must ever precede the crown. "If you don't 
bear the cross, you can't wear the crown." 
He came with the cross, fulfilling Isaiah 53 ; 
and now He is coming with a crown, the 
Messiah and King of Isaiah 9 :7, and of Jere- 
miah 3 :17. Not only did He come to the 
earth once — the Christ offered to bear the 
sins of many; but "unto them that look for 
Him, shall He appear the second time." 
Heb. 9:28. 

The New Testament declares His coming. 
In the 260 chapters of the New Testament, 
the second coming of Jesus Christ is defi- 
nitely referred to 318 times. Some one has 
estimated that one out of every thirty verses 
is devoted to this great and glorious theme. 

The Epistles of Paul, while referring to 
water baptism only 13 times, refer to the sec- 
ond coming 50 times. This is "the blessed 
hope" with which the members of the 
church body are told to comfort one another. 

Every time you repeat the Lord's prayer, 
you are praying for Christ's return. "Thy 
kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as 
it is in Heaven." How can there be a king- 

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dom without a King, or His righteous reign 
be established upon the earth till Christ re- 
turns to rout the hosts of darkness, cast 
down Satanic rule, and wield His own dear 
sceptre o'er the lands? 

The last prayer in the Bible is a great 
heart throbbing cry for His return. "Even 
so, Lord Jesus, come quickly.'' And the an- 
swer still rings from Heaven — "Surely I 
come quickly; and My reward is with Me." 

Jesus Himself promised that He would re- 
turn, saying: "And if I go away (to pre- 
pare a place for you) J will come again." 
What could be plainer than this statement 
of our Lord? "If I go away — I will come 



again." 



Did He go away % Yes. Acts 1 :9 is care- 
ful to give us a clear description of our 
Lord's departure from this earth. "And 
when He had spoken these things, while 
they beheld he was taken up and a cloud re- 
ceived him out of their sight." 

"If I go away" — Yes, there He goes, slow- 
ly, majestically, the literal, visible Jesus is 
ascending into the heavens. Higher, higher 
He rises, up and up till the clouds receive 
Him out of their sight. And there stand the 
disciples watching Him go. 

"Ah, there He goes, my beautiful Mas- 

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ter," methinks tlie voice of John the Be- 
loved must have mourned, "when will I ever 
rest my head upon His loving breast 
again ?" 

"Lord, Lord, when shall I again gaze into 
Thy precious face, sit at Thy feet and hear 
Thy tender voice V 1 Mary the sister of Mar- 
tha must have sobbed. 

"Gone — gone! My Lord is gone! — But 
what was that He said? — 'If I go away, I 
will come again. ' He has surely gone away ; 
but will He come again V 9 Hark! Who is 
that, that speaketh now — : 

The Angels Testify. Suddenly two men 
stood by them in white apparel, saying : " Ye 
men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into 
heaven ? This same Jesus, which is taken up 
from you into heaven, shall so come in like 
manner as ye have seen Him go into heav- 
en." Acts 1:11. 

This "same" Jesus . . . shall return. Not 
some mythical, intangible, invisible Spirit; 
but this SAME Jesus; the Jesus who ate 
bread and fish and honey before their eyes 
after His resurrection ; the Christ who said, 
"Thrust thy hand into My side, handle Me 
and see." 

Oh, Glory to His dear Name ! Small won- 
der that they returned unto Jerusalem with 

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joy. Why the message of our Lord's sec- 
ond coming is the most joyful message that 
could be borne to the heart of a believer, by 
man or angel. It spells joy to the children 
of light, for then the sun will be risen ; and 
woes to the children of darkness, for sin and 
night will then be conquered and banished 
forever. 

The Apostle Paul bears witness to His 
coming in 1 Thess. 4 :16-17, saying : "For the 
Lord Himself shall descend from heaven 
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, 
and the trump of God; and the dead in 
Christ shall rise first: Then we which are 
alive and remain shall be caught up together 
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in 
the air; and so shall we ever be with the 
Lord." 

The Holy Spirit declares His coming is 
nigh at hand, ringing the glorious words 
through waiting hearts, "Jesus is coming 
soon, get ready!" 

The Signs of the Times, when compared 
with Bible prophecy, declare that His com- 
ing is nigh. Unbelievers may scoff at the 
thought of His personal and literal return 
for His waiting church, as the people of 
Noah's day scoffed at the declaration of the 
coming flood. But as sure as the flood came, 

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and caught faithful Noah up on its heaving 
bosom, leaving the sinful and unbelieving to 
be buried beneath the rising waves ; so cer- 
tainly will Christ, the blessed Bridegroom of 
the Church, return to take His Bride away, 
leaving the foolish virgins, and the unpre- 
pared to be covered by the waves of tribula- 
tion. 

Jesus is coming ! What if He should come 
tonight ? Does your heart leap exultantly at 
the thought ? Are you ready to meet Him, 
washed in His precious blood, filled with His 
Holy Spirit ? If not, seek Him today ; there 
is no time to lose. Buy oil that your lamps 
and vessels may be filled, then when the door 
of translation is opened in the skies, you will 
go into the marriage of the Lamb. 



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Ho\tf Is He Coming? 

So glorious and inspiring is the theme 
of Christ's second coming, so filled with 
hope and life and comfort, that it makes the 
cords of the waiting heart to vibrate as a 
harp swept by the celestial melodies of 
"That Blessed Hope." 

Coming again ! O hallelujah ! That tender, 
merciful, understanding Jesus — that dear 
Son of God, who took the little children in 
His arms and blessed them, who healed the 
sick, and raised the dead, and cleansed the 
leper, who fed the hungry, forgave the sin- 
ner, and bound up the broken hearted, that 
precious Lamb of Calvary, whose bleeding 
wounds were opened wide — that mighty res- 
urrected crowned King of heaven and earth 
— that coming Bridegroom of the Church, — 
O bless His precious Name! He's coming 
back again. 

Coming back in power and glory, sur- 
rounded by an innumerable company of an- 
gels, robed in His kingly garments, His san- 
dals upon His feet, His sceptre in His hand. 
Coming — 

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But here! We are to study God's Word 
today, and seek the answer to the question : 
"HOW is He coming f " 

No truth is more firmly established on Bi- 
ble foundation, no truth more emphasized in 
the Word than the second coming of Jesus. 
All must admit that according to the Word 
of God, Jesus Christ has promised to come 
back to this earth, some time, somehow. 

As to the manner of His coming there are 
many theories. 

First, there are those who believe that the 
coming of the Lord was spiritually fulfilled 
on the day of Pentecost. They declare that 
He who ascended with a resurrected body be- 
fore the eyes of His disciples returned after 
ten days in the Spirit form to comfort, 
guide, and endue his little ones with power 
for service in the preaching of the Gospel. 

True there was great power, and a real 
Person of the Trinity that descended upon, 
and entered into them upon that day. This 
Person, however, was not the Lord Jesus 
Christ, but the Holy Spirit — third Person in 
the Trinity — of whom He had spoken say- 
ing, "It is expedient for you that I go away. 
For if I go not away the Comforter will not 
come unto you ; but if I depart, I will send 
Him unto you." John 16:17. 

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"I will send you another Comforter.' ' 
. . . He shall glorify Me : for He shall receive 
of Mine, and shall show it unto you . . . He 
will not speak of Himself, but he will speak 
of Me," etc. Plainly Christ is not speaking 
of Himself, but of another! — namely, the 
Holy Spirit, third Person in the God-Head. 

Let us not confuse the office work of the 
Spirit with that of the Son, for whilst the 
Spirit was being outpoured upon the wait- 
ing church, Christ was at the right hand of 
the Father in Grlory where Stephen saw him 
some time later. 

There are those who believe that the De- 
struction of Jerusalem (70 A. D.) was the 
coming of the Lord. But a moment's thought 
and honest study of the Scriptures disproves 
to the heart of the believer the truth of such 
a statement. His coming is to be marked, 
not by the destruction but by the restoration 
of Jerusalem. The Jews who have been torn 
and driven will be brought again unto their 
own land. After their deception, and tribu- 
lation through the anti- Christ, they will see 
the Lord coming in the clouds of heaven — 
their Messiah — the Prince of Peace with 
healing in His wings. 

Then, too, the signs predicted to accom- 
pany the second advent of the Lord from 

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heaven, were not fulfilled during the destruc- 
tion of Jerusalem. The graves were not 
opened for the "dead in Christ" to rise ; nei- 
ther were the living saints "caught up to 
meet the Lord in the air." The gospel had 
not yet been preached unto the ends of the 
earth — this was a time of seed sowing — not 
harvesting the ripened grain. 

There are others who declare that the com- 
ing of the Lord means nothing more nor less 
than CONVERSION— the coming of the 
Lord into the sinner's heart. 

At conversion, however, the sinner comes 
to the Lord, not the Lord to the sinner. The 
convicted soul is led to the " Fountain Filled 
with Blood' ' by the Holy Spirit who makes 
plain unto him the finished work of Cal- 
vary ; and bears witness with his spirit that 
he is a child of God. Although there is a 
definite and blessed way in which Christ is 
enthroned in the hearts of His people at re- 
generation, it would not be the definite sec- 
ond coming for which the Apostle looked 
forward to with unutterable yearning and 
referred to throughout the years as "that 
blessed hope, the second coming of the Lord 
Jesus Christ." His coming will be attended 
by opening graves, resurrected saints, and 
stupendous power and glory. 

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There are those who maintain that the 
coming of the Lord takes place at DEATH. 
Such declare that there will be no coming 
other than that which every one experiences 
when he passes out of this body to be "pres- 
ent ivith the Lord." 

But here again, the life goes to Christ in- 
stead of Christ coming to the life. If death 
were the coming of the Lord, Christ would 
need to come to this earth many, many times 
each day. We are told that at every tick of 
the clock some soul passes into eternity, and 
Jesus would not be in glory to fulfill His 
High Priestly duties at the right hand of the 
Father where He makes intercession for the 
saints continually. No, bless the Lord, the 
coming of the Lord will not mean death, but 
life, — not a going down into the grave but a 
coming out of it in a resurrection bright and 
fair. 

There is still another class who believe 
that the spreading of the Gospel of Jesus 
Christ into the remotest corners of Heathen- 
dom is the coming of the Lord. 

A moment's reflection upon this subject, 
however, convinces us, that this too is a mis- 
taken thought. His coming is to be sudden. 
He is to appear in the "twinkling of an eye." 
And with the rapidity with which the light- 

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nings flash across the heavens from the east 
unto the west. "Two will be sleeping in one 
bed, the one shall be taken and the other 
left" Whereas the sending forth of mission- 
aries and the propagation of the gospel takes 
centuries and is, all must admit, a slow and 
tedious process. 

If, therefore, none of these events are the 
coming of Christ, what is the solution of the 
question — 

HOW IS HE COMING 

The best and only way to determine this is 
to ascertain "what saith the Scriptures." 
How does God's Word say He is coming ¥ 

Let us turn again to the first chapter of 
Acts, with its marvelous and graphic de- 
scription of Christ's ascension and the suc- 
ceeding events. Jesus Christ in bodily form 
had been resurrected from the grave for for- 
ty days. During this time He had visibly 
appeared to more than five hundred. His 
precious blood had been shed on Calvary, 
but His body of flesh and bones which they 
had laid in the tomb had been resurrected. 

So real and tangible was this body that to 
doubting Thomas He had said, "Reach hith- 
er thy finger and behold my hands; and 
reach thither thy finger and thrust it into my 

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side." This resurrected Lord had builded a 
fire upon the shore, broiled fish and bread 
upon the coals and eaten, before their eyes. 
In this chapter He stands forth in their 
midst giving a last word of instruction and 
exhortation. Then "When He had spoken 
these things, while they beheld, He was taken 
up; and the cloud received Him out of their 
sight. And while they looked steadfastly to- 
wards heaven as He went up, behold, two 
men stood by them in white apparel; which 
also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye 
gazing up into heaven® This same Jesus, 
which is taken up from you into heaven, 
shall so come in like manner as ye have 
seen him go into heaven." Acts 1:9-11. 

THE SAME VISIBLE, TANGIBLE JESUS 

Here we are plainly told how He is com- 
ing. This "same" Jesus (with the same 
identical resurrected body which you 
now behold, the same pierced feet and hands, 
and the same tender heart) which is taken 
up from you into heaven, shall so come in 
like manner as you have seen Him go. 

He went up slowly, visibly, a majestic, lit- 
eral, resurrected Jesus, in the clouds of 
heaven. 

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His disciples stood and watched Him go 
up, and up, until the clouds hid His dear 
form from view. He will return "in like 
manner/' — i. e., in the clouds of heaven. 
Made visible to His waiting children, He will 
descend from heaven, coming in power, 
bringing with him an innumerable company 
of angels, to take His loved ones home. 

IN THE CLOUDS 

"Behold, He cometh with clouds" (Rev. 
1:4-7); and "The Lord Himself shall de- 
scend from heaven with a shout, with the 
voice of an archangel and with the trump of 
God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; 
then we which are alive and remain shall be 
caught up together with them in the clouds, 
to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we 
ever be with the Lord." (I Thes. 4:16-17.) 

Here is a real event, described so plainly 
and unmistakably in God's Word, that it 
cannot be explained away or mean anything 
else than exactly what it says. This is a defi- 
nite happening at a definite time. The words 
we have quoted can mean but one thing, and 
that is, that these same heavens of blue, with 
their fleecy clouds are to be parted wide by 
the returning of the Son of God. Some of 
these days they will light up with His Glory, 
as He descends from God out of heaven. 

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WITH A SHOUT 

We are told that He is coming "with a 
SHOUT.' ' Oh, dear reader, does not your 
whole being thrill, and your heart beat faster 
at the words — "The Lord shall descend from 
heaven with a shout, with the voice of an 
archangel and with the trump of God?" 

What a shout — what a voice — what a 
trumpet that will be for those with digged- 
out, listening ears ! Oh, are you listening for 
that sound — listening in the busy, roaring 
streets, listening in the silence of the night, 
— keeping your ears clean and closed to the 
gossip and foolish jesting all about you — lis- 
tening, waiting, ready, for that sound. 

"Shall descend with a shout" — Oh, Glor- 
ious message that fills the soul with joy, and 
the eyes with happy tears!! That mighty 
voice of the archangel, that trump of God, 
will cause the very earth to vibrate ; and will 
penetrate the deepest graves in land or sea. 

No grave will be so far distant in Africa's 
burning sand or Greenland's icy mountains, 
but that voice will reach and penetrate. 
No stone or mausoleum so solid, but His 
Voice will penetrate. It will be heard in 
every quarter of the earth where there 
abides a waiting, ready heart. 

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If this is such a great shout, will the sinful 
masses of earth hear it also, and understand 
its import? 

In all probability they will hear a sound 
of some sort, but it is doubtful that they will 
recognize it as the voice of the Lord. When 
Jesus was baptized by John in the Jordan, 
God spoke from heaven, saying: "This is 
my Beloved Son, in whom I am well 
pleased/' The people of that day did not 
recognize the voice of God, however, and 
many thought that it thundered; others 
thought an angel had spoken. When Jesus 
appeared and spake to Saul on the road to 
Damascus, the voice, while intelligible to 
Saul, was not understood by those who ac- 
companied him. It would not be surprising, 
therefore, if the same thing occurred at 
Christ's second coming. 

Perhaps, on that day, some godly little 
servant girl may be waiting upon the table 
of her rich and fashionable mistress. The 
afternoon " bridge' ' and "whist" now over, 
the dinner is being served faultlessly. 
Sparkling witticisms are being exchanged 
over the snowy linen, with its shining silver 
and fragrant blossoms. 

The maid (let us call her Miss Faithful) is 
obediently serving the soup and oysters ; but 

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her heart is far above all the frivolity with 
which she is surrounded. She is thinking of 
Christ's soon coming, and of that other table 
— the Marriage Supper of the Lamb — where 
she will be a guest and the angels will serve 
the tables. 

Suddenly a loud and most peculiarly in- 
definable sound is heard from above, which 
causes the very window panes to rattle and 
the delicate china to tinkle. 

" Mercy ! What was that?" asks some one 
nervously. 

' ' Sounded to me like thunder, ' ' replies an- 
other, glancing through the window. "The 
sky has been a little cloudy this afternoon — 
guess we may have a little shower, nothing 
to be alarmed about, I'm sure." 

"Oh, dear! thunder storms and lightning 
make me so nervous," trembles the worldly, 
unprepared mistress, "but I guess this will 
pass over." Her hand trembles visibly as 
she sounds the table chime for Miss Faith- 
ful. 

The moments pass, and yet no Miss Faith- 
ful appears with the roast fowl and vegeta- 
bles. What can be keeping the girl ! 

The mistress rings again and yet no ser- 
vant. She grows embarrassed and rings 
again. This time the puzzled woman ex- 

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cuses herself and goes to the kitchen door. 
Never before has the obedient, respectful 
servant neglected her duty in this manner. 

"Miss Faithful! where are you?" — no re- 
ply- 

"Cook, where are you, and do you know 
anything about Miss Faithful?" — still no 
reply. They are nowhere to be found ; there 
is the dinner on the tray, ready to be served, 
there is the pan which has just boiled dry on 
the stove, beginning to burn — and over on 
the window seat an open Bible, marked at 
1st Thessalonians 4:16. 

Impatiently she touches the button for the 
chauffeur. 

"Perkins, have you seen Miss Faithful or 
the Cook anywhere?" 

"No, ma'am, I saw them last just before 
they began to prepare dinner. While you 
were playing whist, they were having a little 
prayermeeting here in the kitchen ; and Miss 
Faithful was reading 'The Book' over 
there." 

How very strange ! — The mistress finally 
served the dinner herself, and engages new 
servants the following day. The subject of 
conversation at the dinner turns to the large 
number of unexplained disappearances of 
which one reads in the papers today ; and the 

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episode is dropped. To the hearts of the sin- 
ful worldlings 'twas but the sound of thun- 
der. To Miss Faithful and the Christian 
cook 'twas "The Voice of the Lord." 

SUDDENLY 

The Coming of the Lord will take place in 
an instant, and without warning. 

"Of that day and hour, knoweth no man, 
no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father 
only." 

"But as the days of Noah were, so shall 
also the coming of the Son of Man be. For 
as in the days that were before the flood they 
were eating and drinking, marrying and giv- 
ing in marriage, until the day that Noah 
entered into the ark, and KNEW NOT until 
the flood came, and took them all away, so 
shall the coming of the Son of Man be." 
Matt. 24:36-39. 

There will be no time to prepare in that 
moment. Those who are ready will be caught 
up with Him in the air ; but those who are 
unprepared will be left behind. Then shall 
two be in the field; the one shall be taken, 
and the other left. In that sudden moment 
one part of the globe will be shrouded in 
darkness and its inhabitants asleep in their 
beds. Somewhere it is early morn and wo- 

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men are grinding their morning meal ; while 
still another quarter of the sphere it is broad 
daylight and the harvesters are toiling in the 
field. 

The suddenness of His coming is again de- 
scribed in the Parable of the Ten Virgins : 
"They that were ready went in with him to 
the marriage; and the door was shut. . . . 
Watch, therefore, for ye know neither the 
day nor the hour when the Son of Man Com- 
eth. Matt. 25:10-13." 

The last words of Christ, recorded in the 
Bible, concern the suddenness of His com- 
ing — "Surely I come quickly." Rev. 22 :20. 
And the last recorded cry of the Church 
Bride is embodied in the answering words of 
John the Beloved — "Amen, Even so, come, 
Lord Jesus." 

Jesus is speaking to your heart, even now, 
saying, " Behold, I come quickly." Oh, can 
you lift up your face to the clouds of heaven, 
and with clean hands and a pure heart cry 
with joy: "Amen, even so, come, Lord Je- 
sus. ' ' If not, there is no time to lose. Today 
is the day of preparation, tomorrow may be 
too late. 

AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT 
The word of God tells us that at His sec- 

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ond coming, Christ will come u asa thief in 
the night.' ' 

A thief comes to the home, at an hour 
when least expected ; and the inmates of the 
home are not notified as to the hour of his ar- 
rival. 

A thief comes with a definite object in 
view, and when it is accomplished, he quick- 
ly and quietly takes his departure, carrying 
with him that for which he had come. 

A thief does not seek the wooden furni- 
ture, nor the carpets. He comes for the gold, 
the silver and the precious stones. 

And indeed the richest treasure the earth 
holds today is the redeemed, blood-washed, 
spirit-filled believers who await the coming 
of Jesus Christ. All else God considers as 
wood and hay and stubble. He is coming for 
the gold, tried in the furnace of affliction — 
the silver of atonement, wrought out in 
yielded lives — the 'precious stones that adorn 
the soul- winner's crown; stones digged from 
the depths, cut and polished by the Master's 
hands, into jeweled graces, which adorn the 
Christian life. 

Many homes will be left desolate — the 
richest jewel, a godly mother, a Spirit-filled 
husband or child will have been caught out 
and up. To the mourners who refuse to be- 

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lieve or prepare, Christ says: "But knotv 
this, that if the good man of the house had 
known in what hour the thief ivould come, he 
would have watched, and would not have suf- 
fered his house to be broken up, therefore, 
be ye also ready; for in such an hour as you 
think not, the Son of Man cometh. 

AS A KINGLY BRIDEGROOM 

Jesus our Lord is never coming back to 
this earth again to be spit upon, bruised and 
beaten with staves, ignominiously insulted 
and nailed to the tree. Bless His dear name ! 
He is coming back a mighty, triumphant 
King ! His crown will be upon His head and 
His sceptre in His hand. 

Once in the end of the world hath He 
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of 

Himself Christ was once offered to 

bear the sins of many : and unto them that 
look for Him shall He appear the second 
time without sin unto salvation. 

In that day the rainbow of peace will be 
under His feet: And His people shall weep 
no more. Storms will all be over. Death and 
woe can never touch them more. 

He is coming as a mighty victor ; triumph- 
ant over death, hell and the grave. 

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Surely at the stately steppings of His ap- 
proaching feet, the stars of the morning will 
again break forth into singing ; the hills and 
the mountains will flow down with praise; 
the sea and the caverns of the deep will lift 
their voices and thunder His glory ; and all 
the earth declare that He is the King of 
Kings and the Lord of Lords. 



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Wken Is He Coming? 

Being fully persuaded, by the Scriptures, 
both as to His coming and the manner in 
which He shall appear, the next great 
breathless question that leaps to the heart 
and mind is — WHEN is He coming ? 

The stars in the heaven, the clouds of the 
sky, the prayers of God's people, the song of 
the saints, life, death, the preaching of the 
gospel — everything has a new meaning! 
New emotions stir the waiting heart to its 
very depths ; the most steady pulse is made 
to quicken; and into the eyes grown dim 
with care and sorrow a new light wells and 
shines with quenchless hope. 

Jesus is coming ! Those stars will tremble 
— those clouds will flash with His glory ! 
Death will be swallowed up in life, and the 
flooding light of dawn will vanquish the pall 
of darkness. The patient face of the watch- 
er in the night, will be suffused with the glad 
eternal light of a new, new day. Tears will 
be dried forever ; burdens will roll away, as 
the unfolding curtains of the heaven reveal 
the face of our blessed Bridegroom. 

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O head once crowned with thorns; now 
crowned with Victorious and Kingly Glory ! 
O face fairer than the morning, purer than 
the lilies of the valley — O eyes that gaze 
with yearning love and pity on Thy little 
ones — O blessed Form, clad in Thy garments 
that smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, 
when will Thou come forth from the Ivory 
Palaces ? When, O, when, shall we gaze in- 
to the heavens, and behold Thee coming in 
glorious majesty ? When shall we hear Thy 
voice, whose trumpet tones shall cause the 
hills to tremble an^the caverns of the sea 
to echo, and the Christians' graves to loose 
their bands. 

Small wonder that after the announce- 
ment of a day of such ineffable glory the dis- 
ciples came unto their Lord privately and 
put to Him the question— "Tell us when 
shall these things be? What shall be the sign 
of Thy coming, and of the end of the age?" 
—Matt. 24:3. 

These three questions concern three dis- 
tinct events: 

(1) The destruction of Jerusalem and 
its temple, the overthrow of Jewish rule, and 
the dispersion of Israel. 

(2) The second coming of Christ for His 
saints, when they should be caught up to 

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meet Him in the air, for the marriage of the 
Lamb. 

(3) The end of the world (or age) when 
Satan should be cast down forever, the earth 
cleansed by fire, and God Himself stretch 
forth His sceptre o'er the new heavens and 
the new earth. 

When is He coming ? What shall be the 
sign of His coming ? Is His coming near at 
hand? Is it possible for any one to know 
the exact time when He will appear % These 
and a score of other eager questions come 
trooping to the portals of the Word beseech- 
ing answer. Let us consider Christ's answer 
to these queries, for He has answered them 
every one ! 

Before going farther, let us bear in mind 
the fact that the second coming of Jesus 
Christ is divided into two parts : 

(1) His coming for His people (1 Thes. 
4:17). 

(2) His coming with His people (Deut. 
33:2); Matt. 25:31-35). 

When Jesus comes FOB His people, His 
appearance is likened unto a bright and 
Morning Star. His second coming will her- 
ald the near approaching day whose light 
shall never fade. This coming for his people 
will be followed by the most bitter tribula- 

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tion the world has ever known, blood shall 
flow to the horses' bridles, and a famine for 
the Word of God shall reign from shore to 
shore. 

When He comes WITH His people, He 
shall arise as the Sun of Righteousness with 
healing in His wings. Satan shall be bound, 
the hosts of darkness conquered, and His 
righteous rule shall be established in the 
earth (Rev. 20:2-4). When He comes for 
His people, only the waiting saints will see 
and meet Him in the air. When He returns 
bringing His saints with Him every eye 
shall see Him, weeping and consternation 
shall fill the hearts of they who rejected 
Him. 

CAN ANY ONE KNOW THE DAY OR 
HOUR OF HIS COMING? 

for His people? NO! Christ's Word ex- 
plicitly answers this question in the nega- 
tive : "Watch therefore for ye know neither 
the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man 
cometh. Of that hour knoweth no man, no, 
not the angels of heaven, lout My Father 
only" 

But, though we may not know the day nor 
the hour, we are told that of the " times and 

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the seasons" we need not be "ignorant" 
(Matt. 24:33; IThes. 5:1-6). 

In this respect His second coming is re- 
markably similar to His first coming. The 
faithful few who were looking for, and earn- 
estly expecting Christ's first coming to this 
earth, knew not the day nor the hour. They 
were not in ignorance, however, as to the sea- 
sons. 

Take for instance the wise men. Accord- 
ing to the scriptures which they earnestly 
searched, and the signs of the times to which 
they were awake, they were certain that the 
time was at hand." Yet not until they saw 
the star itself did they know the day, or the 
hour of His appearance. 

The Mother of Jesus, though mindful of 
the seasons, knew not the day nor the hour, 
till the time was fulfilled. 

To Simeon, a man just and devout, wait- 
ing for the consolation of Israel (or the com- 
ing of the Lord) it was revealed that ere he 
should taste death, he should see the Lord's 
Christ (Luke 2:26). Here again, as in the 
case of Anna the prophetess is an example 
of they who knew the seasons, but not the 
day nor the hour. 

Were we to know definitely that the Lord 
would not come for five years, many would 

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delay their preparations, and say, "I still 
have time." But knowing that the signs 
predicted to precede His second coming are 
practically all fulfilled, and that the Holy 
Spirit is sending forth the last call, "Behold 
the Bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet 
Him!" — there is every reason for haste and 
immediate preparation. "Take ye heed, 
watch and pray; for ye know not when the 
time is/' (Mark 13:33.) 

We do know the coming of the Lord must 
be premillenial, for the righteous dead are 
raised up before the thousand years reign, 
to sit with Christ upon His throne (Rev. 20 : 
4, 5.). The Devil is bound before the Mil- 
lenium (Eev. 20:1-5), and the Anti-Christ 
destroyed before this day (2 Thes. 8 :10) . 

HIS COMING IS NEAR AT HAND 

There is also every reason to believe His 
coming to be near, even at the door. In an- 
swer to the questions of His disciples in 
Matt. 24, Jesus told of many signs that pre- 
cede, and indicate the approach of that day ; 
signs that were to be seen in things national, 
spiritual, educational, and touch every walk 
and calling in life. These signs were to point 
like mile posts to that great event. 

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SOME OF THE SIGNS 

"Take heed that no man deceive you; for 
many shall come in My name saying, I am 
Christ, and shall deceive many. . . . Where- 
fore if any say unto you, Behold, He is in the 
desert; go not forth; Behold, He is in the se- 
cret chambers; believe it not. For as the 
lightning cometh out of the East and shineth 
even unto the West, so shall the coming of 
the Son of Man be." 

FALSE CHRISTS 

As we read these signs, let us check off 
one by one, all that have been fulfilled. Has 
any one ever had the audacity to come say- 
ing, "I am Christ?" And is it possible that 
so preposterous a statement would deceive 
many? 

Yes, such impostors have come, with their 
varied claims that they were Jesus the 
Christ, come to earth again. Amongst the 
number might be mentioned Sweinfurth, 
Dora Beekman of Minnesota, Mr. Herron of 
Detroit, Mich., who declared himself to be 
"Prince Michael," who came fulfilling Dan- 
iel 1:11. In mentioning Mr. Herron, in 
passing, it is amusing and yet pitiful to note 
the ease with which the most foolish asser- 

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tions can deceive the people. During the 
time of his imprisonment, a Christian work- 
er was trying to undeceive one of his most 
ardent followers : 

"But how can you believe that Mr. Her- 
ron is Christ when the Word distinctly says 
that His coming will be as the lightning that 
shineth from the east even unto the west?" 
he inquired. 

"Why, when Jesus came to earth the first 
time, He was born in the East, wasn't He?" 

"Yes." 

"And when Mr. Herron was born, that 
was in the West, was it not — Detroit is sure- 
ly in the Western hemisphere ! ' ' How ridic- 
ulous ! yet so easily are some led captive by 
the silly lies of the deceiver. 

Then too there was Annie Besant's pet 
boy — the "Star of the East"; also the 
"Baab" of Persia, whom so many worship- 
ed as the Christ. Whilst engaged in Chris- 
tian work in New York City, my Mother 
chanced to room in a house, the landlady of 
which was absorbed from morning till night 
in lauding the name of this "Baab" and de- 
claring him to be the Christ returned to 
earth again. Meetings were held to worship 
him who dwelt across the sea ; and incident- 
ally to raise money to swell his coffers. 

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Russel declared that the coming of the 
Lord would take place in 1874 while many 
today declare the coming of Mrs. Mary Ba- 
ker Glover Patterson Eddy with her " Sci- 
ence and Health or Key to the Scriptures" 
to be the coming of the Lord — their rev- 
elator. 

During a winter tent campaign in Florida 
some years ago the writer was preaching 
joyfully about the second coming of the 
Lord. So happy and exalted became her 
heart whilst declaring the transporting joy 
of this theme that she cried aloud "O, I will 
know Him when I see Him ; and will follow 
Him for evermore." During the altar call, 
while men and women were weeping their 
way to the front, she made her way down the 
aisle to personally invite men and women to 
make this Saviour theirs. As she passed a 
certain seat about half way down the aisle a 
man reached out a detaining hand and laid it 
upon her arm. Thinking some poor soul 
needed advice or encouragement, she turned 
to him: 

" Sister?" 

"Yes, sir?" 

"Did I understand you to say, that you be- 
lieve that Jesus is coming soon, and that you 
are longing to see Him?" 

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"Oh, yes, sir ; I am sure that He is coming 
and I do long to see His face !" 

"Did I understand you to say that you 
would know Him when you saw Him and 
would follow Him wherever He should 
lead?" he persisted. 

"Yes, indeed! I am sure that I would 
know Him amongst ten million and will 
walk by His side forever." 

' ' Then I have some good news for you, Sis- 
ter." 

"Is that so?" interestedly. 

"Yes, I have good news for you — I am Je- 
sus Christ" — will you follow me?" 

"No, indeed, sir!" I gasped. "I will not 
follow you. You are not my Jesus, with the 
pierced hands and side and feet. He will de- 
scend in the clouds of Heaven with a shout, 
the voice of an archangel and the trump of 
God. And if I am faithful I will rise to meet 
Him in mid air, so to be ever with the Lord. 
No, sir, I will not follow you!" 

Oh, thank God, none of these are the com- 
ing to the Christ ; but mere fulfillment of the 
signs which must precede His blessed ap- 
pearance. 

FALSE PROPHETS 
"And many false prophets shall rise, and 

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shall deceive many" (Matt. 24:11). This is 
the generation in which false prophets and 
false religions spring up and become firmly 
rooted over night. 

What church is making the conquests that 
so called Christian ( ?) Science is today % Di- 
abolically hatched in the heart of Satan, de- 
nying the Deity of Christ and necessity of 
cleansing through His precious blood — 
wrapping its deception in robes of correct 
(?) thinking, and divine (?) love, it comes 
as an angel of light and splurges ahead in 
great sweeping strides. Money and people 
in ever increasing numbers fall into its de- 
ceptive lines and follow after. One after an- 
other the temples of this false religion rise — 
most of them look like great mausoleums 
and that is what they are, white sepulchres 
filled with dead men's bones. Unless they 
who follow this delusion of the devil re- 
nounce its teachings and accept Jesus Christ 
as the "Only Begotten Son of God" without 
the shedding of whose precious blood " there 
is no remission of sins," they will certainly 
be lost forever — for only the blood can save. 

Spiritualism — mother of Christian Sci- 
ence, is even less careful to cover its Satanic 
origin, and rule. Here, few pretenses to 
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prayer are made. Yet, with their false rep- 
resentations and assertions of being able to 
call back the departed dead, thousands have 
been beguiled into their toils. The spirits 
which they bring them is unquestionably of 
the devil. Nor does all spiritualism consist 
of such hocus-pocus as table-tipping, mys- 
terious raps, and ouija boards. The devil 
has power to impersonate departed spirits, 
and give advice that if followed often leads 
to unspeakable crimes, suicide, and endless 
damnation. And yet, that these prophecies 
of Christ might be fulfilled, no less a person- 
age than Sir Oliver Lodge becomes one of its 
chief exponents. 

Whilst on the Western Coast, both in San 
Francisco and in Los Angeles, the writer 
came in contact with a new religion, whose 
self -given name goes under the initials P. C. 
D. W. These people openly worship the 
devil, declare he is a good fellow, a great jes- 
ter, a wonderful friend, and in co-league 
with God Himself, to test the integrity and 
faith of mankind. They claim that once we 
recognize what a harmless fellow he (the 
devil) is, and accept him as our friend, we 
are all right and our religious a joyous one. 
These false people claim Bible authority for 
their teaching, and dress in a garb that some- 

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what resembles that of a Catholic priest and 
nun, and are gaining a following. So bold 
are they that they entered our meetings, and 
distributed their literature until ordered to 
stop. 

The things which Christian (?) Science, 
Spiritualism, etc., do in certain instances are 
truly miraculous. But, has any but God 
power to perform miracles? you exclaim. 
Yes, the devil, who caused the magicians ' 
rods to become serpents (Ex. 7 :11) has pow- 
er also, and this power will be displayed 
more and more in these last days. "False 
prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and 
wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, the 
very elect (Mark 13:22). In the Book of 
Revelation (Ch. 13:13-14) we read that Sa- 
tan powers will be able to call down fire from 
heaven, and deceive them that dwell on the 
earth by the means of miracles which 
through his human instruments and the An- 
ti-Christ he is able to perform. 

LOVE WAXES COLD 

"And because iniquity shall abound, the 
love of many shall tvax cold" (Matt. 24:12). 
Today iniquity abounds on every hand. Pol- 
itics are corrupted, greed, avarice, and 
money grabbing urge the people on, feast- 

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ing, drinking, dancing, theatre-going, the 
giddy world of the cabaret, honking auto- 
mobiles that roll along the streets in splen- 
dor, smooth as satin; beautiful ladies in 
whose arms are clasped poodle dogs, and 
from whose painted lips the blue smoke of a 
cigarette is breathed — Ah, yes; inquity 
abounds, the cup is full of overflowing. 

And because iniquity shall abound the love 
of many shall wax cold. "For that day shall 
not come, except there come a falling away 
first." (2 Thes. 2:3). This is the day of 
which Christ spoke saying, "Men shall have 
a form of godliness, but shall deny the 
power thereof.' ' 

Here again is the prophecy fulfilled, one 
has but to look upon the cold forms and cer- 
emonies of apostate creeds to see it every- 
where. Ministers who deny the miracles of 
the Bible, and taboo the supernatural, — 
ministers who declare only a part of the sac- 
red writ is reliable or inspired, — ministers 
who dispute the deity of Christ, — dainty, 
namby-pamby preachers, who protest that it 
is a sickening shock to the refined delicacy 
of their people to so much as mention the 
precious "blood" of Jesus — ministers who 
do not believe in "emotionalism" such as al- 
tar calls where men and women weep for 

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their sins and are filled with the joy of sal- 
vation, or making the temple ring with the 
praises of God, but do believe in filling the 
church with concerts, suppers, shows, de- 
bates, moving pictures. God help us to tell 
the truth about this thing!! so many are 
afraid to preach it ! O let us get back to the 
God who lives, and saves, and answers 
prayer by fire. 

The love of many shall wax cold. Theo- 
logical seminaries of today in whose hands 
are placed the tender youth who seek train- 
ing for divine ministry have become in 
many instances * ' theological cemeteries, ' ' 
wherein are buried faith in the inspiration 
of the sciptures, God's story of the creation 
and present day power of God. Theory 
takes the place of spirituality; and wisdom 
(?) is made to come from the head instead 
of living waters from the heart. 

How many denominations do you know, 
which once stood against formality and cold- 
ness, contending for the old-time religion 
that have now succumbed to the same thing. 
Today they have become popular — their re- 
proach is taken away; they walk hand in 
hand with the world and the devil needs no 
longer bother fighting them. There have 
indeed come in these last days' 'Scoffers,. 

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walking after their own lust, and saying, 
where is the promise of His coming?" 2 Pet. 
3:3. 

But praise God there is a people, in the 
midst of the people, whose hearts are fixed 
on Grod ; they are the children of the bridal- 
chamber; their vessels are filled with oil 
and their lamps brightly burning. In the in- 
iquity which abounds in the world about 
them they see but another mile-post pointing 
to the coming of the Lord. Instead of caus- 
ing their love to wax cold, these conditions 
but drive them closer to the Lord. In the 
world and yet not of it, this peculiar, chosen, 
blood-washed, Spirit-filled company await 
with intense yearning the coming of their 
deliverer, and the glorious day when every 
knee shall bow and every tongue confess 
that He is Lord. 

KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED 

If the increase of knowledge (Dan. 11 :4) 
is an indication of the last days, we are sure- 
ly living in that time. How often we hear 
the expression, " Really I do not know how 
our forefathers existed without the aid of 
these marvelous labor-saving devices and 
modern inventions ! Why were they not dis- 
covered long ago V 9 

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The reason that they were not discovered 
sooner is that God had a set time for the in- 
crease of knowledge — "in the last days." 
During the last two generations have come 
the invention of steam locomotives, electri- 
cally driven trains, trolleys and motors, elec- 
tric lights, the telephone, the telegraph, the 
wireless, the cables beneath the sea, the auto- 
mobile, the aeroplane, the great coal and oil 
burning steamers that race the sea, the sub- 
marine, the giant cannon, the torpedo, the 
gasoline motor-driven farming implements, 
the electric motors that do everything from 
drying the hair, rocking the baby, churning 
the butter, washing the clothes, and sweep- 
ing the floors to lighting whole cities, draw- 
ing long trains, and lifting hundreds of tons. 
What marvel would surpass the great mod- 
ern printing press, and the linotype ma- 
chines. Such knowledge, such superhuman 
genius spring from the minds of two genera- 
tions — what does it mean? — The last Bays! 

MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO 

(Dan. 12:4) 

Never in the history of the world, has it 
been so easy or customary to travel to and 
fro, as it is today. Transcontinental trains 

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tear across the country day and night, sec- 
tion after section running within a few min- 
utes of each other. Such trains are taxed 
to their utmost, and no matter how many 
more trains are added, officials declare that 
travel increases more than ever. Every- 
where one goes railroad depots, docks, ticket 
offices, thousands of people are on the move. 
Thoroughfares and subways are blocked 
with automobiles, everybody is intent on 
running to and fro, and the world's on 
wheels. 

Well did the prophet describe the automo- 
biles when he said: "The chariots shall rage 
in the streets; they shall jostle one against 
the other, they shall run like the lightnings." 
(Nahum2:4). 

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS 

"And ye shall hear wars and rumors of 
wars, see that ye be not troubled, for all 
these things must come to pass but the end 
is not yet." (Matt. 24:6.) 

All adown the years, since these words 
were uttered there have been wars and ru- 
mors of wars. From the conquest and fall 
of Jerusalem, 70 A. D., to the warrings of 
the Saxons, and of Nalopeon Bonaparte, 
the French Revolution, the separating of the 
U. S. A. from Great Britain, down to the 

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last generations where those still living re- 
member the Civil War, between North and 
South (XL S. A.), the struggle in the Philip- 
pines, the Boer war, the Boxer Rebellion, 
one international upheaval has followed an- 
other. There have been rumors of war with 
Japan (the Yellow Peril) ; rumors of wars 
with Mexico, etc. But "When ye see and 
hear of these things," says Jesus, "be not 
troubled, for the end is not yet." 

THE CRY OF PEACE AND SAFETY 

"But when they say peace and safety, 
then sudden destruction cometh upon them, 
as travail upon a woman with child, and they 
shall not escape." 1 Thes. 5:3.) 

"For nation shall rise against nation, and 
kingdom, against kingdom; and there shall 
be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes 
in divers places." (Matt. 24:7.) "And there 
shall be blood and fire and vapors of smoke." 

For many years the teaching of the " sec- 
ond coming of Christ " has been revived and 
taught by some of our most earnest Chris- 
tians and Bible students. They who taught 
this wonderful truth, declared that accord- 
ing to God's unfailing Word, certain things 
must come to pass ere He appeared — there 
must be a great world war, they said, and the 

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Jews must go back to their native land, Jer- 
usalem must again open its gates to the wan- 
derers, earthquakes, famines, bloodshed, 
and mighty upheavals also must precede and 
herald that "day of days." 

The declaration that there must be an- 
other and a greater world war than was ever 
known before, was met by derision. 

"Well, well! the very idea; another war — 
why the thing is unthinkable, preposterous ! 
What does the Bible (old-fashioned book, 
written hundreds of years ago) know of the 
twentieth century ? What did this Jesus of 
Nazareth, whose feet walked by the shores of 
Galilee know of this present age ? Of course 
He had prophesied the war, but WE, we of 
the present day, we financiers, and politi- 
cians are the people to decide this question," 
they cried. 

"Indeed there could not be another great 
war," declared others, "we are too civilized 
now to think of entering a barbaric, bloody 
contest ; the pen which is mightier than the 
sword, and international arbitration are des- 
tined to settle all difficulties between the civ- 
ilized nations from this time forth." 
"War?" scoffed the business men, "Ho ! ho ! 
never again ! — we will have naught but peace 
and safety, from this time forth." 

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"For when they shall say, Peace and 
Safety; then sudden destruction cometh 
upon them . . . and they shall not es- 
cape." (1 Thess. 5:3.) 

For years learned men in the financial, 
political and educational world had declared 
that "a world war" would be impossible; 
and that only a weak or morbid mind could 
seriously entertain such a thought. Who was 
this Jesus of Nazareth, whose feet walked 
by the shores of Galilee over nineteen hun- 
dred years ago, that He should predict 
calamities which should envelop the world 
today ? What did the Bible know about our 
policies, treaties and amendments ? We, we 
of today, are the people to decide these ques- 
tions with our superior knowledge, our em- 
bassies, and foreign legations, they said with 
finality. 

And so, the cry of Peace and Safety sped 
its way throughout the world. The subject 
soon became one of international discussion. 
Newspapers and great journalists devoted 
pages to the theme of everlasting, universal 
peace. The Army and Navy took it up and 
decided that the best way to keep peace was 
to prepare for war, to so strengthen their 

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forces with money, men, ships, and muni- 
tions that no other nations would dare to 
speak of war. 

"Peace!" said the king upon his throne, 
and settled himself in comfort. 

"Peace!" said the magnate in his office, 
and went on to amass his millions. 

"Peace!" said the farmer at his plow, 
"things will always be as they are." 

"Peace !" said the rosy wife, as she kissed 
the sleeping son upon her breast. 

"Peace!" cried Youth, and danced in the 
gilded hall. 

THE PEACE PALACE 

"Let's build a palace unto Peace," said 
the nations at their meet. "A palace that is 
builded by us all, where leaders of our gov- 
ernments can come together and settle all 
disputes amicably with the pen, which is 
mightier than the sword." 

And so they builded at The Hague the 
great "Peace Palace," the most supreme ef- 
fort ever witnessed, and costing several mil- 
lion sterling. Each nation vied with the 
other in making costly gifts and donations, 
for its erection. From England came stained 
glass windows for the council chamber; 
from France Goeblin tapestries ; silk tapes- 

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tries from Japan; priceless porcelain from 
China; a vase of jasper from Russia; costly 
rugs from Turkey; exquisite marbles from 
Italy ; a marble throne from Greece ; marble 
statuary from the U. S. A.; the massive 
gates of bronze, for the park entrance, came 
from Germany; and many smaller gifts 
from less influential nations. 

A marvelous library, consisting of some 
75,000 volumes, upon the subject of interna- 
tional peace, was installed. Every interna- 
tional disturbance, its cause, and the method 
in which is was adjusted, was codified, and 
indexed for immediate reference in future 
arbitration. 

A body of eminent judges were brought 
together from various parts of the earth, 
and elected to sit as a permanent jury upon 
each difficulty between the nations. There 
was to be no more war, they said, as all 
would now be settled amicably by interna- 
tional arbitration. 

The palace was completed ; the flags of the 
nations were triumphantly unfurled to the 
breeze from its turrets and domes ; the bands 
blared forth the national anthems; march- 
ing soldiers drew to attention and saluted, 
all hats were off as thousands cheered. 

" Hurrah! Hurrah! for Peace, and Safe- 

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ty!" — But what was that you said, Lord in 
your Word — "When they cry Peace and 
Safety, then cometh sudden destruction.' ' 

WAR 

Then the blow fell 

Like a bolt of lightning from a clear sky ; 
like a tornado on a summer's day; as a de- 
struction from the Almighty did it come. 

Feasting was turned into mourning ; songs 
into lamentation. Sublimely unconscious of 
the slowly rising sceptre of death, the god- 
less, dancing, merry-making multitude went 
on unheeding, till in one swift moment the 
placid sea of "Peace and Safety" was 
turned into a tempestuous, seething caul- 
dron of hate and war and fury. 

Thirteen declarations of war were made in 
one month. Six out of eight of the greatest 
world powers were tearing at each other's 
throats. And as the German hordes went 
swarming through ravished Belgium, crying 
"On to Paris," people began to recall the 
words of the Lord: "For nation shall rise 
against nation, kingdom against kingdom." 
Matt. 25:7. 

Our own fair U. S. A. stood for a time be- 
neath its unfurled stars and stripes, gazing 
with fascinated horror, on the bloody carn- 

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age of a world gone mad. Wider and wider 
swept the vortex of the war tornado until we 
were picked up bodily and plunged into the 
centre of the fray. 

" And there shall be blood, and fire, and va- 
pors of smoke" 

Blood ? Ah, yes ! No need is there to re- 
mind the still torn and throbbing heart of 
the world, of the blood of mothers' sons 
which stained the fields of Flanders with a 
deeper dye than the poppies in the dell. 

And fire ? Yes, there was the fire of belch- 
ing cannon; the gruesome fire of funeral 
pyres ; the lurid flame of burning towns and 
villages; the fire of burning forests, that 
licked the blackness of the night with crim- 
son tongue. Fire? Why, the men even 
fought each other with sheets and curtains 
of liquid fire. 

And smoke ¥ There rises still before our 
eyes in vision hazy, smoke-filled battlefields; 
and smoke of guns which were never silent ; 
the smoke of burning homes, and homes that 
lie like ashes smouldering in the dust. On 
land men fought with vapors of smoke and 
poisonous gases ; and on sea men wrapped 
their men and ship in curtains of smoke to 
hide them from hostile eyes. 

"And there shall be famines, and pesti- 

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lences, and earthquakes in divers places." 
Matt. 24:7. 

"But how could this prophecy ever be 
fulfilled, to any marked degree?" protested 
the Bible critic in the pre-war days. "Look 
at our fields of waving grain, our gigantic 
elevators, our cold storage food supplies, our 
reserve of this and that ." But like ev- 
ery other prophecy in the Word of God, this 
too must come to pass. Who is there among 
us who has not shuddered with horror at the 
pictures and accounts which our daily pa- 
pers contained, depicting the famine-strick- 
en sufferers of Armenia and other lands % 

" And pestilences" — No! We will never 
have another great world epidemic, they 
said, for our learned medical doctors have 
discovered serum, and anti-toxine to destroy 
almost every known germ, etc. But think 
for a moment of the plagues of the last gen- 
eration ! think of the thousands of beautiful 
children, and grown boys and girls, stricken 
down with infantile paralysis ; and of the 
"influenza plague," that came sweeping 
around the world, leaping the sea on the 
wings of the wind and beginning its work 
without a boat to carry it. From the burn- 
ing sands of Africa's desert to the icy bor- 

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ders of Alaska, through city and country, 
through the homes of rich and poor, this pes- 
tilent, relentless messenger of death spread 
his wings. Without respect for person or 
place, it swept on ; they with strong, well 
bodies succumbed as quickly as the weak. No 
medical skill has been able to determine 
from whence it came, or whither it went. 
And yet it took more lives, and devastated 
more homes than all the war. Caskets could 
not be made quickly enough, and in large cit- 
ies scores were buried in one long grave, 
awaiting such time as death should stay his 
hand, and a proper burial be made possible. 

It has been well and truthfully said that 
' ' Prophecy is the mould of history. ' ' Today, 
the multitudinous signs foretold in God's 
Word are being fulfilled on every hand, and 
speeding like swift ships of the air, are her- 
alding the coming of Christ. 

Today, awakened hearts are throbbing as 
never before ; pulsating with new life and 
comfort — the near fulfillment of "That 
blessed hope." The last prayer in the Bible 
is being breathed from earnest souls, "Even 
so, Lord Jesus, come quickly!" Multitudes 
are crying with Rutherford : 

"O day, dawn! O time, run fast! O 
Bridegroom, post fast, that we may meet! 

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O heaven, cleave in two, that that bright face 
and head may set itself through the 
clouds !" 

For centuries our fathers have foretold 
and looked forward to this day wherein we 
live — the day of prophecy fulfilled — the cup 
of the Gentiles all but full, and the clarion 
assembly call to Israel's scattered host. 

Should any one ask, however, " Which of 
the multitudinous signs, which are now be- 
ing fulfilled, do you consider the most mar- 
velous and convincing?" we would answer 
without hesitation (and I am sure that other 
writers and thinkers will agree with us) the 
sign of 

THE FIG TREE PUTTING FORTH 
HER LEAVES 

"Now learn a parable of the fig tree: 
When his branch is yet tender, and putteth 
forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh; 

"So liketvise ye, when ye see all these 
things, know that it is near, even at the 
doors/' Matt. 24:32. 

The fig tree, as every Bible student 
knows, represents the Jewish nation and is 
the emblem of Israel. Prophecies concern- 
ing Christ's coming cluster more thickly 
about the Jew than any other people. Stu- 

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dents of the Word have always realized that 
before His appearing, many great changes 
must take place with regard to this people in 
accordance with the fulfillment of Bible pro- 
phecy concerning them in this day and age. 
They must needs increase in number — the 
gates of Palestine must again swing open to 
admit their weary, wandering, exiled feet. 
The " unspeakable Turk" must be unseated 
from the citadel of his power ; and his spell 
of fear and terror broken. The promised 
land long since but a desert waste, must 
needs spring forth into new fertility and lit- 
erally blossom as a rose beneath the latter 
rain. Great wealth must come to this race. 
Jerusalem must be restored, the seaports 
opened to make her the center of commerce, 
and the Temple rebuilt. 

IMPROBABILITY OF PROPHECY'S 
FULFILLMENT 

For generations these prophecies have 
been read and pondered; but how unlikely 
their fulfillment seemed; with the many 
seemingly unsurmountable barriers in the 
way. How could they be brought to pass, 
and this scattered, despised people ever 
again become a nation, with the Son of Da- 

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vid as their King? And even if Turkey's 
grip were broken, and they should return, 
how could they eke out a living from those 
barren, sun-bleached hills ? 

Skeptics laughed the idea to scorn, infidels 
held such prophecy up to ridicule — a proof 
that the Bible was not only infallible but had 
openly, flagrantly erred, "The promised 
land!" laughed Darwin, "Ho! ho! To think 
of calling that narrow strip of land, those 
barren hills by the open sea, 'a promised 
land'!" — Evidently Darwin had not read 
the Bible enough to know that the promised 
land is one-fifth larger than France, and had 
he ever had a glimpse of California as it is 
today, he would have seen what a little irri- 
gation can do for a few barren hills by the 
open sea. 

But how could the captivity of Jacob be 
turned ? Persecuted, beaten, crucified, 
bruised, driven, kicked as a football by the 
nations, — yea, even crucified! How could 
they be restored to power and influence and 
home? 

In the light of today's illuminating chain 
of events let us see if these questions are not 
being answered and the problems solved one 
by one. 

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THE DISPERSION AND PERSECUTION 
OF THE JEW 

So evident and world-wide has been the 
dispersion and persecution of the Jew that 
little need be said along this line. For cen- 
turies, beginning with Isaiah, first of the 
Major Prophets, to Malachi, last of the Mi- 
nor Prophets, holy men who spoke as the 
oracles of God, had foretold great calamities 
and catastrophes that were to engulf Jerusa- 
lem and the nation. 

Higher and higher piled the towering pro- 
phetic wave, threatening to break upon them 
at any moment unless they repented : Yet, 
in the face of it all, they rejected the God of 
Abraham, stoned His prophets, and as the 
last great culmination of wickedness, cruci- 
fied His Son, Jesus Christ. 

Then the wave broke! The judgment of 
an outraged God fell upon the masters of 
that infamy. How little did the murderers 
realize the meaning of their own words 
when they mockingly said: "His blood be 
upon us and upon our children!" 

Awesome indeed was the fate of those in- 
strumental in the crucifixion of Christ. His 
betrayer, Judas Iscariot, hanged himself. 
The rope broke, and the falling body was 

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burst asunder so that his bowels gushed out. 
History tells us that Herod, who partici- 
pated in it, was dethroned by Caesar and left 
to die in infamy and exile, Annas and his 
household were mobbed and ruined, and his 
son dragged through the streets, tied to a 
whipping post, scourged and slain. Pilate, 
who like a weakly coward sat back and al- 
lowed it for fear of losing Jewish power and 
the favor of the people, was stripped of the 
very things he sought to hold and banished 
from his country. Tradition says that he 
soon went in anguish to a suicide's grave 
from the insufferable shame and ignominy 
that relentlessly pursued him. 

In 70 A. D., Jerusalem was captured by 
the Romans and darkest prophecy began to 
be fulfilled. From then till now, the weav- 
ing of Palestine's history upon the loom of 
life has been shaped in the pattern of a cross 
upon a skull, and wrought in sombre and 
sorrowful colorings. Wrath and retribution 
gripped its people with a mailed fist of steel 
and they were made to drink to the dregs the 
cup of bitter gall and vinegar which they 
had but a little time since placed to the Sa- 
viour's lips. Multitudes were sold into slav- 
ery, many for a more miserable pittance 
than the thirty pieces of silver paid the 

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traitor Judas for betraying the Son of God 
into their hands. 

Many were crucified and tortured as bru- 
tally as the Saviour they despised. Their 
portion has been famine, oppression, disper- 
sion and bloodshed. They who cried, " Cru- 
cify Him," have been hated, driven from 
their own land, hissed, spurned and ostra- 
cized by the nations. Their beloved city has 
been the storm center of war and conquest, 
political and religious, all down the ages. 
Some one has said that they who desire to 
follow the Jew through his years of disper- 
sion, will follow a trail of blood. Truly, his 
blood has been upon them and their children. 

Scattered! Yes — according to prophecy 
they were to be scattered "like corn through 
a fine sieve." Could their dispersion be 
more adequately described? Go where you 
may today, you will find there the scattered 
sons of Jacob. So persecuted and ruthlessly 
slaughtered were they that one hundred 
years ago, there were estimated to be only 
some two hundred thousand Jews in the 
world. But adown the centuries hear the 
voice of Jehovah— who changeth not — 
'What have I here? My people are taken 
away from Me, — they that rule over them 
make them howl, and my name is continually 

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blasphemed. But My people shall know My 
name. They shall know in that day that I 
am He that doth speak; behold it is I!" 

STARTLING INCREASE IN NUMBER 

That they have entered upon a new era can 
be readily realized since statistics of the 
World's Almanac today rate their number 
at fifteen millions. Stating this conserva- 
tively at fourteen millions, what a startling 
increase it is ! 

In the Middle Ages, when the great Jew- 
ish traveler, Benjamin of Tudela, made his 
visit to Jerusalem, he found there just four 
Jews. Today they form the majority of its 
population. When the Jews gain a foothold 
in a city they soon increase and spread till 
former residents and merchants are pushed 
back and out and a Jewish colony is formed 
and firmly rooted. 

Eussia despite her slaughter and cruelty is 
said to contain more than six million Jews 
today; Turkey, seventy-five thousand; Aus- 
tria-Hungary, two million two hundred and 
fifty-eight thousand; France, one hundred 
thousand ; Germany, six hundred and fifteen 
thousand, and Morocco, three hundred thou- 
sand. There are Jewish colonies and syna- 

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gogues in the cities of China, in the heart of 
Africa, and in the desert itself. When the 
Portuguese settled in India some years ago, 
they found three distinct colonies there. 
When England took possession of Aden, she 
found more Jews than Gentiles. London, 
England, is essentially a Jewish city. New 
York contained one and a half million Jews 
at the close of the war. Detroit, fifty thou- 
sand ; Chicago, two hundred and twenty-five 
thousand; Philadelphia, two hundred thou- 
sand ; Cleveland, one hundred thousand. Our 
own country contains some three and a half 
millions of these wandering exiles. 

AMONG THE OLDEST NATIONS ON EARTH, 
YET DISTINCT AND UNASSIMILATED 

Without a doubt, they are the greatest, the 
most absorbingly interesting nation in the 
world today, existing without a king, with- 
out a queen, without a flag, without a gov- 
ernment, without a country. 

They live in our midst one of the oldest 
races on earth, and refusing to intermarry, 
have kept their blood the purest. The reli- 
gions of the world have not made the slight- 
est impression upon them. One writer de- 

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clares, " There now exists a nation on the 
earth which, for forty centuries, alone of all 
the peoples of the world, forms one family 
and has descended from one father; the 
only one which has kept its nationality in the 
midst of upheavals, of massacres and of ex- 
pulsions, through all the ages, under Nebud- 
chadnezzar, Charlemagne, Napoleon, and 
under empires that have passed away as a 
shadow, leaving only their names. 

" These empires have perished; their 
places know them no more, but the Jew re- 
mains, standing apart from all other na- 
tions, distinct, unique, a thousand times de- 
spoiled and yet rich, constantly slain and 
yet ever increasing in numbers, dispersed to 
the ends of the earth but more and more 
united." 

Thus, going back to Jerusalem, they will 
be thrown up on the shores of Palestine, a 
separate, distinct nation, intact and unas- 
similated as was Jonah from the belly of the 
whale. Ordinarily, the great fish would 
have assimilated the body of Jonah, but he 
was chosen, foreordained, protected, chast- 
ened by God and thrown back whole to do 
His bidding and fulfil His word. 

So the Jewish nation, though swallowed 
up in the angry, insatiable maw of the na- 

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tions subjected to the acid tests of the world 
with its manifold religions and interming- 
ling of races, has been kept intact as a nation 
and will be thrown up whole on the shores of 
Palestine, a living testimony to the truth of 
God's immutable Word. 

THE JEWISH QUESTION AND HOW 
TO SOLVE IT 

The world has always had a Jewish ques- 
tion and always will have till this persecuted, 
scattered nation find a resting place in its 
own land, and gather around the throne of 
David. 

The high notes of pathos, truth and logic 
were struck most convincingly by the Jewish 
writer, D. de Solo Pool, when he wrote in 
1916: 

"What does the world mean when it talks 
about the Jewish problem ? 

"The people of Russia talk of a Jewish 
problem in Russia. The Poles talk of a Jew- 
ish problem in Poland, Englishmen talk of a 
Jewish problem in England, and the people 
of the United States are beginning to talk 
of a Jewish problem in the United States. 

"Why should we Jews everywhere be a 
problem to the rest of the world ? The Rus- 

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sian is not a problem in Russia, the Pole is 
not a problem in Poland, nor the English- 
man a problem in England, nor the Ameri- 
can in the United States. No people is a 
problem in its own land. It is only the peo- 
ple of foreign race in a land who are a prob- 
lem to that land. For example, the Japan- 
ese and the Chinese who are settled in the 
Western States constituted no problem 
while in their own lands. But since they 
have come in large numbers to California 
and other Western States, they have become 
a serious problem to the United States. 

"The situation is rendered the more pain- 
ful for us because of the fact that we have 
no homeland of our own in which we can set- 
tle without being a problem to some one else. 
In whatever remote corner of the world we 
choose to settle in appreciable numbers, we 
are always strange to the people of the land, 
so long as we remain Jews, and we are there- 
fore everywhere generating local outbreaks 
of the Jewish problem. In this way, as we 
have been scattered North, South, East and 
West, we have carried the Jewish problem 
with us all over the world. Whither can we 
go to escape persecution? Whither can we 
flee to be free of anti-semitism ? Wherever 
we go, prejudice and anti-semitism follow 

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us. We are a people without a home, a race 
of wandering Jews looking everywhere in 
vain for rest. If the Japanese is not wel- 
comed in California, he may go back to Ja- 
pan. If the Hindoo is not permitted to enter 
Canada, he may return to India, where he is 
at home. Other peoples of the world can es- 
cape becoming a problem to their neighbors 
by the simple expedient of staying at home 
in their own lands. We only are compelled 
to be a problem to our neighbors everywhere, 
because we have no home land to which we 
may retire or in which we may remain.' ' 

Dr. Theodor Herzl and other Jewish 
thinkers who founded the modern Zionist 
movement, therefore said to the nations of 
the world : ' ' The real solution of your Jew- 
ish problem lies in giving back to us Jews 
our home-land. Not all the Jews would re- 
turn to this land and you would not rid your- 
selves of all your Jews. But you would re- 
lieve yourselves of your acute Jewish prob- 
lem by making it possible for many Jews to 
emigrate to their home-land in order to es- 
cape ill-will. . . . We wish to avoid being 
driven round the world in a vicious circle, 
like schnorrers who are sent on from village 
to village and from town to town because no 
one wishes them to stay and no one gives 

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them a welcome. If therefore, you nations 
of the world really wish to know how to solve 
this Jewish problem, which seems to yon to 
be so difficult and which troubles you so 
sorely, we can tell you how this can be done 
very simply: — give to us or sell to us our 
own home-land so that we need not crowd 
into your lands. You will then be the hap- 
pier and we shall be the happier. . . . There 
is only one land that we call ours, and that 
is the land of our hope, the land of our an- 
cestors, the land made sacred by our past 
and by our Bible, by all our traditions, by 
our prayers and our tears, the Promised 
Land, the land of Palestine. If we can be 
given the opportunity to make that land our 
own, we shall solve for you the Jewish prob- 
lem of which you complain. 

ZIONISTIC MOVEMENT 

Since the destruction of the Temple, near- 
ly two thousand years ago, the longing for 
Palestine has been ever present with the 
Jew. They have never ceased to recall their 
past, mourn for its loss, and daily pray for a 
future that should bury the very memory of 
that calamity in the glories of a restored na- 
tional life. It was the hope of a return to 
the land of his fathers that buoyed up the 

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Jew amidst persecution, and for the reali- 
zation of which the devout ever prayed. Un- 
til a generation ago this was a hope merely — 
a wish piously prayed over, but not worked 
for. But the rebirth of the Jewish nation is 
no longer a mere dream. It is in process of 
accomplishment in a most practical way, and 
the story is a wonderful one. We gaze to- 
day upon the fascinating spectacle of a na- 
tion buried for 2000 years in dispersion and 
martyrdom, shaking off the grave clothes 
and rising from the dead. 

From the midst of this death, Israel, two 
thousand years dead, has arisen, no longer a 
race among the races but once more a nation 
among nations. 

To Chaim Weizmann, more than to any 
other one man, fell the task of conducting 
the negotiations which brought the British 
Empire to its outright Zionistic public 
pledge. 

There has gradually come about a change 
in the outlook of the Jew — a change which 
can be more easily felt by those who are in 
touch with Jewish affairs than it can be 
measured by facts and figures. This change 
is illustrated most concretely by the growth 
of the Zionist organization itself, with its 
200,000 adherents in all parts of the world, 

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its biennial representative Congresses, its 
network of financial institutions, its Press in 
many languages and its incessant and exten- 
sive propaganda by the written and the spo- 
ken word. 

The possibilities of a Jewish resettlement 
of Palestine, the land which forms the con- 
necting link of three continents and three re- 
ligions, are incalculable, whether looked at 
from the political, economic or religious 
point of view. 

In our own generation, we have lived to 
see the birth and rise of the Zionistic Move- 
ment — its purpose being to restore Israel to 
Palestine. Jew and Gentile alike are dig- 
ging deeply into their pockets to abet the 
cause which but a few years ago was pro- 
nounced unlikely and even impossible. The 
smouldering hope cherished in the heart of 
Israel Zangwill and of countless thousands, 
has today burst forth into leaping, exultant 
flames of joy. Hopes long deferred are be- 
ing realized at last. A quota of ten million 
dollars is even now being raised for the ex- 
press purpose of rebuilding Jerusalem and 
restoring a national Jewish home in Pales- 
tine. Over two billion dollars have been 
raised for the relief of suffering and famine- 
stricken Jews in Armenia and other lands — 

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thirty million from Greater New York 
alone. 

THE FIG LEAVES OF EDUCATION 

are budding forth. One Jewish writer dis- 
cussing their progress in the educational and 
business world says of his brethren, "They 
have wormed their way into appointments 
and into the free professions by dint of pli- 
ancy, mock humility, mental acuteness and 
clandestine protection. If styuck or spat 
upon by ' Aryan ' students, they rarely ven- 
tured to return the blow or the insult. 
Through all the sweat and all the grime of 
their daily scrambles on the slopes of their 
slippery Ghetto pit, they have won out and 
up to ideas and ideals. Beyond all propor- 
tion, the Jews of today are the financiers, 
politicians, scientists, university professors, 
ambassadors and congressmen. 

Six of our most prominent members of 
Congress are Jews — representatives from 
New York, Chicago, Indiana, San Francis- 
co, etc. Among the many prominent leading 
men of today and yesterday might be men- 
tioned the following members of Congress — 
Levy, Simon, Strauss, Wolf and Yulee. In 
passing, mention might also be made of the 
following Jews well-known in the Who's 

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Who today: Abram Elkus of New York, 
Ambassador to Turkey, 1916-17, now judge 
of the Court of Appeals of the State of New 
York; Louis Marshall of New York, chair- 
man of American Jewish Belief, Trustee of 
Syracuse University since 1910, to which he 
presented a Law Library, also president of 
N. Y. State College of Forestry ; Cyrus Ad- 
ler, and J. Henry Schiffi, founders and pro- 
fessors of theological seminaries and col- 
leges; Louis D. Brandeis, Washington, D. 
C, Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
United States, counsel for the Government 
in the Eiggs National Bank case, 1915, sci- 
entific manager of labor problems and 
trusts ; Simon Wolf, minister to Egypt un- 
der Cleveland's administration; Julius Eos- 
enwald of Chicago, civic philanthropist and 
supporter of educational enterprises and 
who contributed $700,000 to the University 
of Chicago alone; Baron Sonnino, Minister 
of Foreign Affairs in Italy. 

We will not take space to enumerate oth- 
ers famous in history, chemistry, art and 
music, though such names as Rubinstein, 
Mendelssohn, Isac D 'Israeli, Jascha Heifetz, 
Mischa Elman, Efram Zimbalist, will ever 
be recorded on the annals of great geniuses. 

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England has a Jewish Chief Justice and 
Governor General. 

It is said that eight chairs of the Chicago 
University are filled by Jewish professors 
and that half the faculty of Columbia Uni- 
versity are of this race. 

There are seventy-six national Jewish or- 
ganizations in the United States. 

Some of the greatest modern scientific dis- 
coveries of the day have been made by Jews. 
We are told that when England first entered 
the recent war, she had not the formulas for 
the much-needed high explosives. A promi- 
nent Jewish scientist provided her with 
them, and when asked to name the price 
for so valuable a gift, requested only that 
should Great Britain and the Allied armies 
capture Palestine, they would restore it to 
the Jews. 

THE FIG LEAF OF FINANCE 

is being put forth upon this tree today. 
Though millions of them are still suffering 
and poor in Europe, the Jews are rapidly 
becoming the people of greatest wealth and 
influence in the world. 

Some realization of their financial status 
and strength was brought forcibly to mind 
during the trying of the Dreyfus case in 

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Paris some years ago. A second trial was 
demanded ; France refused it. But so thor- 
oughly do they (The Jews) control the 
wealth of Europe that stocks and bonds sud- 
denly began to drop and French financiers 
to tremble lest the financial backbone of the 
country should be broken across the knees of 
Jewish finances. As a last resort, the trial 
was given and stocks and bonds came back to 
normal. 

If you are ever in lower Broadway or 
Wall Street, on a Jewish holiday, you will be 
startled into a realization of the tremendous 
grasp they have upon the finances of our 
country — business, markets and the Stock 
Exchange are practically at a stand-still. 

It is a common saying that the Jews own 
the U. S. A. Even before the war, there 
were said to be in New York City fifty-three 
banking houses owned and controlled by the 
Jews, and one hundred and fifteen million- 
aire Jews. Rothschild alone is estimated to 
be worth four hundred and eighty-two mil- 
lions. 

THREE MAJOR FIG LEAVES APPEAR IN 
RECENT WORLD WAR 

Among the manifold leaves appearing so 
rapidly upon the fig tree, there are none per- 

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haps which can be considered of more major 
importance than 

(1) The routing of the unspeakable 
Turk. 

(2) The capture of Jerusalem by Great 
Britain. 

(3) The unfurling of the Union Jack 
which now floats triumphantly over Jerusa- 
lem. 

The recent world war surely marked the 
beginning of the end of the times of the Gen- 
tiles. Had it accomplished nothing else 
than the elementary simmering down of the 
old Roman nations to the ten toes of Dan- 
iel's image, and the opening of Palestine's 
gates to the Jew, the world conflict would 
have been a most marvelous fulfillment of 
prophecy. 

THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM 

Through the long-drawn, tortuous months, 
which dragged leaden footed into years — 
years of anguish and death — the battle went 
hard and long. To and fro, back and forth 
surged the weary lines, now gaining, now 
losing, grimly, fiercely hanging on. 

Meanwhile, the fighting spread and en- 
compassed the Holy Land. The dislodgment 

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of the Turk from Europe became one of the 
great subjects of the day, entailing as it did 
Jerusalem, and the fate of Israel. 'Twas 
then that Hon. Arthur James Balfour, Brit- 
ish Foreign Secretary and other men of in- 
fluence made the promise, that, "If the Al- 
lies conquer, they will stand pledged to the 
erection of a Jewish state in Palestine/ ' 

"His Majesty's Government views with 
favor the establishment in Palestine of a Na- 
tional Home for the Jewish people and will 
use its influence for this object." Thus 
spoke England to the Jews on November 
2nd, 1917. And on February 12th, 1918, 
France said : " So be it. ' ' Italy followed on 
May 9th, 1918, and other Allied Govern- 
ments and men of light and leading the 
the world overpaid, " Amen," and the dream 
of the Jewish people thus became one of the 
war-aims of the Allied Powers. The doubt- 
ers smiled and said of the British Declara- 
tion, ' ' A scrap of paper ! Will the act follow 
the word?" 

But this was the turning point of the war. 
Within one month, Gen. Allenby and his 
troops encamped without the city walls, 
waiting for the break of day and the formal 
capture of Jerusalem. 

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The morning broke. The battalions fell 
into line. Airships buzzed and roared as they 
circled overhead. " Forward March! !" — 
rang the command. 

Then, as with fixed bayonets and uncover- 
ed heads, the Allied soldiers entered the 
gates and marched through the streets, the 
Turks fell back unresisting, step by step. 
Not a single shot was fired nor opposition of- 
fered. "For thus hath the Lord spoken unto 
me, Like as the lion and the young lion roar- 
ing on his prey, when a multitude of shep- 
herds is called forth against him, he will not 
be afraid of his voice, nor abase himself for 
the noise of them ; so shall the Lord of Hosts 
come down to fight for Mount Zion, and for 
the hill thereof/ ' 

How wonderfully God had staged the 
whole setting for the wondrous drama en- 
acted that day. Was not even the presence 
and the battle formation of the aeroplanes 
which encircled Jerusalem and filled the 
skies like a cloud of huge and angry birds 
foretold in the Word of God? — "As birds 
flying, so the Lord of hosts will defend Jem- 
salem; defending also He will deliver it; and 
passing over He tvill preserve it" Isa. 31 :5. 

It was on December 10th, 1917, that the 

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Allied army led by the British captured Je- 
rusalem and later conquered the southern 
half of Palestine — for the Jewish people. 
British Jews and those of other Allied lands 
were enabled to join the Jewish Legion and 
take part in the liberation of their land for 
their people. Even now, in Palestine, a Jew- 
ish Administrative Commission, acting un- 
der the authority of the British Govern- 
ment and with the assistance of the British 
military staff, is organizing the foundations 
of the Jewish Homeland. 

Thus, with one breath from God the whole 
thing was accomplished. With one turn of 
His hand did He direct the wheels of His 
chariot, Prophecy and History running 
neck and neck, swift, sure-footed, obedient 
steeds beneath the guidance of His eye. 

The Bible is indeed the most up-to-date 
book in the world. Its news is accurate, relia- 
ble, and nineteen centuries ahead of time. 

Man thought he had made a new and re- 
markable discovery when he found that the 
world was round, but God's Word had 
known it all the time, plainly declaring that 
at Christ's second coming, "Two shall be 
sleeping in one bed" — on the side of the 
earth where it will be night, while on the oth- 

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er where it will be broad daylight — "two 
women shall be grinding at the mill." 

Again in the case of Sargus and its King, 
Bible critics derided the term and descrip- 
tion, boldly affirming that there never had 
been such a place or king. They were rather 
chagrined, however, when during recent ex- 
cavations a portion of the old city was un- 
earthed and tablets of stone bearing record 
of the king himself were found. The Bible 
is verily the most up-to-date book in the 
world and nineteen centuries ahead of the 
latest editions of the most modern scientists 
and learned men. 

And so it is in the History of the Jew, if 
you would be abreast of the times, well in- 
formed, able to speak wisely, with assurance 
and certainty of their future — read the Bi- 
ble, and thus get the advance news, the most 
authentic information. 

THE RETURN OF THE JEWS TO JERUSALEM 

Today the gates stand open wide — a wel- 
coming hand is extended. All adown the 
centuries, the longing of the Jews to return 
to their own land has lived on and on from 
generation to generation. A very significant 
item appeared in a recent publication : 

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"The next time you are in London/ ' says 
the writer, "go along by Hyde Park, look at 
the second house by the gate. Notice the 
marble pillars and the cornice above; one 
of them is unfinished. This is the home of 
Lord Rothschild, perhaps the richest man in 
the world. He is an orthodox Jew and every 
orthodox Jew, when building his house, 
leaves a portion unfinished, bearing testi- 
mony to the fact that he is but a pilgrim and 
knows that he is not in a permanent abiding 
place." 

Will the Jews return, you ask? Yes, in- 
deed, for even today the Word of the Lord 
is being fulfilled before your eyes. Ships 
are being chartered to speed them on their 
way. Eussia and new Germany are taking 
active steps to expedite their departure. 

"Therefore fear thou not, O my servant 
Jacob, saith the Lord ; neither be dismayed. 
O Israel : for, lo, I will save thee from afar, 
and thy seed from the land of their captiv- 
ity; and Jacob shall return, and be quiet, 
and none shall make him afraid. For I am 
with thee, saith the Lord to save thee: 
though I make a full end of all nations 
whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not 
make a full end of thee; but I will correct 

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thee in a measure, and will not leave thee al- 
together unpunished." Jer. 30:10, 11. 

"Sing for gladness for Jacob, and shout 
among the chief of the nations ; publish ye, 
praise ye, and say, O Lord, save thy people 
the remnant of Israel. 

"Behold, I will bring them from the north 
country, and gather them from the coasts of 
the earth, and with them the blind and the 
lame ... a great company shall return 
thither. They shall come with weeping and 
with supplications will I lead them . . . 
For I am a Father to Israel, and Ephraim is 
my firstborn. 

"Hear the Word of the Lord, O ye na- 
tions, and declare it in isles afar off, and say 
Re that scattereth Israel will gather him, 
and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.' f 
Jer. 31:8-11. 

PALESTINE IDEA SWEEPS BREADTH OF 
LAND AS RESTORATION WORK EN- 
GAGES ALL JEWRY 

The following clippings from the press of 
recent issues give some idea of the tremen- 
dous movements of the Jews toward Jerusa- 
lem and the fulfilment of Bible prophecy. 
(From "The New Palestine") : 

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HALF A MILLION SIBERIAN JEWS EAGER TO 
MIGRATE TO PALESTINE 

Over 90 per cent of the entire Jewish pop- 
ulation of China, Japan, Siberia and Rus- 
sian Manchuria are anxiously awaiting an 
opportunity to migrate to Palestine, accord- 
ing to Samuel Mason, Jewish Relief Com- 
missioner to Siberia, whose report on this re- 
markable situation was made public by the 
Zionist Organization of America. 

"The same tense yearning is found among 
the Jewish communities of Siberia proper, 
and the Ural," says Mr. Mason. 

"In Japan there is no Zionist organiza- 
tion of any description yet there are hun- 
dreds of Jews, comprising 95 per cent of the 
entire Jewish population, impatiently 
awaiting the time when they may have their 
passports vised, so that they can embark on 
Mediterranean steamers for Palestine. This 
mass-desire to emigrate to Palestine, which 
I found everywhere in the Far East, is not 
due to propaganda, but is an expression of 
deeply ingrained Jewish sentiment." 

The thousands of Jews in the Far East, 
waiting for the opening of Palestine, 
through the establishment of the League of 
Nations or the signing of the treaty with 

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Turkey are roughly grouped into five classes 
by Mr. Mason — investors, traders, farmers, 
laborers and idealists. 

"The traders embrace a large proportion 
of men with extensive export and import 
business experience, which they purpose to 
utilize on a large scale in Palestine. Several 
corporations with capitalization of millions 
of roubles for the purpose of exporting and 
importing materials to Asia Minor via Pal- 
estine have already been formed at Harbin 
and Irkutsk. A shipping company has been 
established at Harbin. 
.../'The farmers want to convert their Rus- 
sian currency into agricultural implements, 
as soon as they know they can proceed and 
that there is available land for them. 

ESTIMATES MILLION JEWS PREPARING TO 
LEAVE RUSSIA FOR PALESTINE 

Dr. Alexander Salkind, former president 
of the Jewish Community of Petrograd, at 
present member of the Jewish National 
Council of the Ukraine, and now visiting 
America, brings with him fresh news of 
Jewish conditions in Russia. 

Those who have not lately been among the 
Jews of the Ukraine and White Eussia can 

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hardly form an idea of the feelings which 
dominate them. Rich and poor, old and 
young, women and children — all are carried 
away by the idea of going to Palestine. The 
rich want to invest their capital there; the 
poor hope to be able to find a market for 
their labor ; and the intellectuals hope to be 
able to apply their knowledge to the building 
up of the new Palestine. Many have liqui- 
dated their property, settled their accounts 
and made themselves ready to go. The offi- 
ces of the Palestine Commission established 
by the Zionist Bureau in Kieff, are always 
thronged with hundreds of Jews inquiring 
as to the possibilitv of eoins; to Palestine. 
Deputations which came to Kieff from vari- 
ous communes in the Ukraine while making 
the usual inquiries declared that other com- 
munities had decided to emigrate to Pales- 
tine en masse with all their institutions — 
Cantors, Rabbis, Dayanim, Charities, etc., 
and that they only wanted to know when the 
first steamer would leave. Similar depu- 
tations are being sent to other big towns, 
more especially to Odessa, by the smaller 
places in the Ukraine. 

There is no risk of exaggeration in assum- 
ing that several thousands, perhaps a mil- 
lion people are preparing to leave Russia at 

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the first opportunity; and in order to pre- 
vent a catastrophe effective measures must 
be taken to check the stream of immediate 
emigration by propaganda and publications 
of a general character; to organize future 
emigration on a large scale by creating suit- 
able institutions for carrying on the work, 
and to prepare Palestine for receiving the 
largest possible number of settlers. 

The following is clipped from an article 
by Morris Rothenberg in "The Macca- 
bean": 

PALESTINE THEIR ONE HOPE 

That the Jews in Eastern Europe realize 
their intolerable situation is clear from the 
fact that the largest majority of them are 
beginning to look towards Palestine as their 
only hope for the future. From indisput- 
able sources it appears that hundreds of 
thousands of Jews in Poland, Ukraine, Q-ali- 
cia and Austria are ready at a moment's no- 
tice to migrate to Palestine. In the large 
centers of Warsaw, Cracow, Odessa and 
Constantinople there are tens of thousands 
of Jews who have poured in with their fam- 
ilies from the interior of these countries, 
having sold all their belongings on their way 

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to Palestine. And the very serious problem 
has arisen to hold back these great numbers 
until Palestine is ready to receive them. 
But it is like holding back the waves. The 
irresistible tide of events is sweeping them 
from their old moorings towards a new 
haven of rest, for their present lot is no 
longer endurable. 

A homeland for the Jewish people is there- 
fore not only a spiritual need but an imme- 
diate physical necessity. Some have looked 
with discouragement upon the fact that Pal- 
estine is a denuded and a devastated land. 
But that is precisely the most favorable cir- 
cumstance for the building of a truly Jewish 
country. As if by the hand of Providence 
this land of our ancestors has not wedded 
itself to any of the numberless races and 
tribes that have been in Palestine during the 
past twenty centuries. They have all come 
and passed through the land and left it un- 
developed. The soil would not respond to 
alien hands. Not until the first Jewish pio- 
neers, thirty-five years ago, came into Pales- 
tine and laid their fingers on the soil did it 
become fertile; for it felt again the tender 
touch of those who loved it and cherished it 
throughout the ages even while in distant 
lands. Because Palestine is uncultivated 

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will it be possible for the Jews to build in 
such a manner as will lay the foundations 
for a truly Jewish life. It will not be neces- 
sary to unmake or to dislodge old institu- 
tions that have their root in the ground, nor 
to compel the withdrawal of those who have 
planted their traditions in the soil. It will 
be possible to fashion such a life as the Jews 
desire, to create those forms which are of the 
essence of the Jewish soul. 

TO PRESERVE JERUSALEM AS A SHRINE FOR 
ALL THE WORLD 

Experts of the Zionist Commission are al- 
ready engaged in planning a modern scien- 
tific city outside the walls, while preserving 
and beautifying the sites sacred to civiliza- 
tion within the ancient gates. Expert and 
experienced city builders under the direc- 
tion of Patrick G-eddes have been sent from 
England to supervise the work, and unlim- 
ited means are being placed at their disposal 
by the wealthiest Jews in the world. Exca- 
vations are already being made, reaching 
down to the old, original floor of Solomon's 
Temple, which is to be rebuilt. 

From the Washington Times : 

A brilliant plan to make ancient Jerusa- 

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lem the most attractive and prosperous city 
in the world is already in process of execu- 
tion. 

Under this scheme the incomparable fea- 
tures of the ancient city will be preserved 
absolutely intact, while around it will be 
built a thoroughly modern city of the Amer- 
ican type, with skyscrapers, trolley cars, 
modern hotels, drainage, water supply, fac- 
tories, theatres and everything that could be 
desired. 

Thus the resident or visitor will be able to 
enjoy the opportunity of examining when he 
pleases the world's most sacred and pictur- 
esque city, while living under conditions of 
modern comfort. 

The location of Jerusalem was chosen in 
incalculably early times on account of its de- 
fensive position at the summit of a range of 
high hills. It has never had any drainage 
system or a satisfactory water supply, and 
it would be nearly impossible to give these 
desirable adjuncts. In the surrounding ter- 
ritory, where the modern city will be built, 
it will be quite easy to furnish these things. 

The International Zionist Commission, of 
which some leading Hebrews of England, 
France and America are members, have gen- 

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eral control of the work rebuilding Jerusa- 
lem. They are very broadminded in their 
views, for they have chosen Professor Pat- 
rick Geddes, of St. Andrews University, 
Scotland, to be chief director of the work on 
the spot. 

Professor Geddes and Dr. Weizmann, 
head of the British Zionist Commission, 
have already left for Palestine and are 
working out plans for rebuilding not only 
Jerusalem, but also Jaffa, Haifa and other 
towns. Professor Geddes is an expert m 
town-planning, sociology and civics. He has 
, already carried out successful town-plan- 
ning in India. 

Professor Geddes will establish a univer- 
sity in rebuilt Jerusalem on the lines of a 
Scottish university. 

The Zionist Commission intends to send 
Zionist colonies to Palestine, some of which 
will be settled in the rebuilt cities and others 
in the rural districts. 

It need hardly be said that the rebuilding 
of Jerusalem is a work of unparalleled in- 
terest to the whole civilized world — for this 
city witnessed the supreme act of the Chris- 
tian religion and contained the sacred tem- 
ple of the Hebrews, after whose destruction 

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they were condemned to become wanderers 
upon the earth. 

The walls of the city remain much as they 
were in Hebrew times, although they have 
been several times moved in some localities. 
And the Golden Gate still stands, through 
which a legend says the Saviour will return 
to rule the city. The enormous foundations 
of the temple walls and their ramparts are 
likewise intact. 

Without the walls the old features are 
still less changed. There stands the Mount 
of Olives practically as it was in the days of 
the Saviour and on it is still preserved the 
Garden of Gethsemane, scene of the most 
fateful mental agony in the world's history, 
and legend even identifies the sacred foot- 
prints. 

The Mount of Olives, treated as a park, 
will form the most beautiful feature of the 
modern city to be built around the ancient 
one. 

Many experts admit that Jerusalem can 
be built into a prosperous capital and com- 
mercial centre. It is a convenient point for 
the handling of commerce from large parts 
of Asia Minor. Palestine itself promises to 
be very productive under suitable cultiva- 

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tion, and in parts of the country there are 
deposits of oil, which is the most desirable 
natural product in the world today. 

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN THE HOLY 
LAND 

A complete system of Hebrew education 
has been developed from kindergarten to 
high school. The diploma of this high school 
(the Hebrew Gymnasium of Jaffa) is ac- 
cepted for admission to Columbia and other 
American as well as European universities. 
In addition, there is a technical school at 
Haifa, the Bezalel Arts and Craft school at 
Jerusalem and a music school at Jaffa. Ev- 
ery colony has its elementary schools, hospi- 
tal, library and assembly hall. Plans are 
completed for the opening of a Hebrew Uni- 
versity at Jerusalem to be established as 
soon as practicable on the Mount of Olives. 

HEBREW A DEAD LANGUAGE FOR 2,000 
YEARS NOW RESURRECTED 

Perhaps the most extraordinary achieve- 
ment of Jewish nationalism is the revival of 
Hebrew. The Hebrew tongue, called a dead 
language for nearly two thousand years, is 

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now once more in the Jewish colonies and 
in Jerusalem, the living mother-tongue. The 
effect of this common language is very great 
in unifying the Jews, for the Jews of Pales- 
tine came literally from all the lands of the 
earth, each speaking either Yiddish or the 
tongue of the country whence he came, and 
thus remained almost a stranger to the other 
Jews. 

By common consent Hebrew became the 
language of the colonies. It was the one 
language which Jews from all parts of the 
world revered and of which they knew at 
least a few words in common. From this, by 
a perfectly natural process, it has become 
the language of daily life. Men use Hebrew 
in their commerce and children in their play. 

THE FERTILITY OF THE LAND 

But what of the barren land ? Can it ever 
be made to yield, and the field to bring forth 
her fruitage again? Verily, indeed, for here 
again is prophecy being fulfilled: "Be not 
afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pas- 
tures of the wilderness do spring, for the 
tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the 
vine do yield their strength. Be glad then, 

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ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord 
your God : for He hath given you the former 
rain moderately, and He will cause to come 
dotvn for you the rain, the former and the 
latter rain in the first month. And your floor 
shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall over- 
flow with wine and oil." Joel 2 :23, 24. "The 
desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose 
. . . the parched place shall become a 
pool, and the thirsty land springs of water/ ' 
Isa. 35:1, 7. 

Today, water piped a great distance is 
supplying the city of Jerusalem and aque- 
ducts long unused have been discovered. Be- 
sides this, the rainfall is being gradually in- 
creased month by month. At times, the in- 
crease will be an inch, an inch and three- 
quarters, two inches, etc., but ever steadily 
increasing. 

There is enough fall to the river Jordan 
to permit the building of five great dams the 
size of those now used for the irrigation of 
California. The river Titus flowing high 
along the ridge, and the snow of the north- 
ern hills can easily be brought down by a 
simple irrigating process and the desert 
land, ever fertile and rich in soil, be caused 
to literally blossom as a rose. 

The first pioneers 40 years ago struggled 

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with barren and swampy soil, fought ma- 
laria, death, disease and the wild Bedouin. 
So marvelously did the Palestinian soil re- 
spond to the touch of loving hands that even 
before the war 48 flourishing Jewish colon- 
ies had been established producing wines, 
olive oil, bamboo, rubber, cotton, tea, or- 
anges, almonds and all kinds of cereals. The 
Jewish Colonial Trust, through the Anglo- 
Palestine Company of Jaffa, with its 
branches in Jerusalem, Haifa, Bairuth, 
Hebron, Saf ed and Tiberias, with its capital 
of over one and a quarter million dollars 
and deposits of over two million, has been 
effectively financing the agricultural and in- 
dustrial needs. Jewish agriculture in Pales- 
tine is experimental, adventurous, scientific. 
Aaron Aaronsohn is the head of the " Jew- 
ish Agricultural Experiment Station' ' at 
Athlit. It has created five new species of 
wheat and of barley especially adapted to 
the climate of Palestine. It has developed 
a grape which will ripen three weeks earlier 
than the grapes of Smyrna and of Cyprus. 

Among the products of the country were 
wines of such excellence that they have been 
awarded at French expositions, and this in 
competition with the French products. The 
value of the vineyards in 1914 amounted to 

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2,800,000 francs. The wine-cellars of the 
colony Rishon-le-Zion, built through the 
munificence of Baron Edmond de Rothchild, 
are among the largest in the world. The 
value of its olive orchards in 1914 amounted 
to 1,380,000 francs. The oranges of Pales- 
tines found a ready market in Marseilles, 
Liverpool, and London, and in the same year 
the orange orchards were valued at 10,- 
780,000 francs. The value of the almond 
groves for the same period amounted to 5,- 
550,000 francs. 

The whole flood-tide of prophecies as to 
this very fertility bears us to one sure and 
certain end, and to one inevitable conclu- 
sion, the fig tree is in this day and genera- 
tion putting forth her leaves, the summer 
is nigh — the coming King is even at the 
door. With uplifted, wistful, yearning 
hearts, we are crying, "Even so, come, Lord 
Jesus.' ' 

Beyond a doubt, we are living in the last 
days. Man has almost crossed the great con- 
tinent of time lying between Christ's ascen- 
sion and His second coming. We press today 
to the further verge of the present dispensa- 
tion; and scanning the sea of space that 
stretches between ourselves and the eternal 
shores of the New Jerusalem, we look for 

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the glorious appearing of our Lord and Sav- 
iour Jesus Christ. 

In the hands of the faithful, waiting 
church and of the awakened Bible student, 
is the Word of God. The eyes of those who 
look for the Lord are upon it. It is an hour 
glass, through which the sands of prophecy 
concerning His coming have nearly all 
passed. A great bulk they lie in the bottom 
of the glass. Those yet to be fulfilled are 
very few, and are slipping with an infinitely 
steady, swift precision, without a moment's 
hesitancy, like a silver stream through the 
narrow space of present fulfilment, adding 
their weight to those which have gone be- 
fore. 

There is a great stir going on among the 
children of the Bride-chamber. The months 
of preparation in oil, and myrrh and frank- 
incense are almost over. The Bride is soon 
to be summoned to go in unto the King. 
White robes, inwrought with fine needle- 
work of gold of Ophir are being put upon 
her. There is a great filling of lamps with 
Holy Spirit oil. The flame of their lighted 
truth flashes the message to the dormant 
worldings round about. Earthly ties are 
being severed, weights and shore-lines laid 
aside, longing eyes are lifted skyward, 

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knowing well that soon from the sea of 
heaven's infinite vastness, they will hear the 
bursting music of myriad angel harps, that 
soon will come sailing to earth the glorious, 
majestic, golden Ship of State — bearing the 
Kingly Bridegroom with ten thousand angel 
hosts to take His loved one home. 

But in spite of the well run sands of 
the hour glass, in spite of the flashing lamps, 
and warning cries, millions of sleepers lie 
wrapt in the drunken torpor of revelry and 
sordid things of earth. The piercing cry of 
the watchman means naught to them. They 
grin stupidly, uncomprehendingly, when in 
letters of fire 

-JESUS IS COMING SOON— GET READY!" 

is flashed across their sky. They have lived 
so long in the world of jests and unreality, 
that this too seems but mockery — vague be- 
fore the dullness of their comprehension. 

The great King of Heaven, whose wed- 
ding supper is being sumptuously spread, 
has noted the numbers of awakened and 
ready guests, all down the ages. He speaks 
today from Heaven, saying: "Go out into 
the hedges and higways and compel still 
others to come in that my house may be 
full." 

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What is to be done must be done quickly 
for soon, O soon, will the prophecy be ful- 
filled wherein our Lord shall regin upon the 
throne of David. The cup of the Gentiles 
full — the catching up of the Bride to meet 
the Lord in the air — times, times, and half 
a time of tribulation such as the world has 
never known — the deception of the Jews by 
the antichrist, (for they will be grossly de- 
ceived by the antichrist, through the rejec- 
tion of their true King, Jesus Christ, and 
their present great expectancy of the Mes- 
siah) — and then will the Lord return with 
His saints to reign a thousand years, King 
of kings, and Lord of lords. 

" Awake, awake! put on thy strength, O 
Zion. Shake thyself from the dust; arise, 
and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself 
from the bands of thy neck, O captive 
daughter of Zion." Isa. 52. But alas! never 
as a nation will they believe or be loosed 
from their bands of unbelief and its dark 
consequences until He shall visibly, literally 
return in the clouds of heaven, the mighty 
King of heaven and earth — the King of the 
Jews. 

What will be the feeling in the heart of 
the Jews when after all their centuries of 
doubt, disobedience, rejection, and punish- 

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ment, they shall see the Christ whom they 
crucified, returning in glory that outshines 
the sun in its dazzling noon-day splendor! 
"Then shall appear the sign of the Son of 
Man in heaven : and then shall all tribes of 
the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son 
of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with 
power and great glory/' Matt. 24:30, 
"Behold, He cometh with clouds: and every 
eye shall see Him and they also which 
pierced Him : and all kindreds of the earth 
shall wail because of Him. Even so, Amen." 
Kev. 1:7. "He shall be great, and shall be 
called the Son of the Highest : and the Lord 
God shall give unto Him the throne of 
Jacob forever; and of His Kingdom there 
shall be no end." Luke 1:32, 33. "For unto 
us a child is born, unto us a son is given ; and 
the government shall be upon His shoulder : 
and his name shall be called Wonderful, 
Counsellor, The Mighty God, the Everlast- 
ing Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the in- 
crease of His government and peace there 
shall be no end, upon the throne of David, 
and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to 
establish it with judgment and with justice 
from henceforth even forever." Isa. 9:6, 7. 
Then shall he say: Break forth into joy, 
sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem : 

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for the Lord hath comforted His children, 
He hath redeemed Jerusalem. 

"The Lord hath made bare His holy arm 
in the eyes of all nations; and all the ends 
of the earth shall see the salvation of our 
God." 

Now learn a parable of the fig tree : When 
his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth 
leaves, ye know that summer is nigh : , 

So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these 
things, know that it is near, even at the 
doors. Matt. 24:32, 33. 



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For Wkom Is He Coming? 

"What are these which are arrayed in 
white robes ? and whence came they % These 
are they which came out of great tribulation, 
and have washed their robes, and made them 
white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore 
are they before the throne of God, and serve 
Him day and night in His temple: and He 
that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among 
them. They shall hunger no more, neither 
thirst any more ; neither shall the sun light 
on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which 
is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, 
and shall lead them unto living fountains of 
waters: and God shall wipe away all tears 
from their eyes. ' ' Rev. 7 :13-17. 

What a glorious vision John must have 
beheld — thousands and thousands of re- 
deemed saints, sweeping triumphantly over 
the last stretch of the journey, clad in white 
and glistering garments, palms or victory in 
their hands, and crown of joy upon their 
heads, upturned faces, suffused by the light 
that streams upon them through wide flung 
gates. 

And just beyond, through gates of solid 

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pearl, lies the celestial city. Its be jeweled 
walls incrusted with emeralds, topaz, jasper, 
amethyst and many rare and precious jew- 
els, sparkle and flash like the stars of the 
firmament. The streets of the city are paved 
with pure gold, clear as transparent glass. 
And yonder are the heavenly mansions, row 
on row — the trees of life — the flowing foun- 
tain — the pearly throne, surrounded by my- 
riads of angels, with golden harps, that fill 
the balmy perfumed air with music. The 
light of God is on the walls, flooding the 
streets, and tinting every spire and dome 
with a far more brilliant glory, than any 
earthly sun. 

And into all this glory, the saints are com- 
ing. They have been caught up to meet Je- 
sus in the air. Shouts and songs and glad 
Hosannas, make the heavens tremble as they 
near the beautiful gates. 

Jesus Christ has gone to meet them. De- 
scending with a shout, He has called unto 
Himself His living and His resurrected 
Bride. He is bringing this Bridal body to 
present them to His Father without spot and 
without wrinkle. How they are singing ! — 
singing of Jesus and His precious Blood 
through which they overcame. 

Blessed, happy, honored people, they were 

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true in the midst of test and tribulation — 
now they shall sit upon the throne and reign 
with Jesus. Faithfully they bore the cross 
— now they shall wear the crown. Ever be- 
lieving, nothing doubting, though the night 
was dark, the valley deep, and the pathway 
rugged; led by a faith that never wavered 
even though it could not see or understand, 
a faith that whispered ; " Faint not, fear not, 
but believe, though now, through the mist 
that hangs between, you see but through a 
glass darkly, you shall soon see face to face. 
The sun of Righteousness shall soon arise 
with healing in His wings. Then shall shades 
of night, and the gathered mist be rolled 
away." 

And now here they are I — John sees them 
coming in their robes of dazzling white ; sees 
them stand, "a great multitude, which no 
man could number before the Throne, and 
before the Lamb, clothed in their white 
robes, and hears them cry with a loud voice, 
Salvation to our God who sitteth upon the 
Throne and unto the Lamb, " Glory, honor, 
praise and dominion belongeth unto Him 
forever and forever ! Hallelu j ah ! ' ' 

They shout, till the sound is as the rolling 
of thunderous breakers on a thousand shores, 
Tears are over — sorrow over, poverty, 

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death, misunderstanding, all, all over! 
Christ has come; and He has said; "Well 
done." 

Glory! Glory! Glory to Jesus! What a 
vision. What a hope! Why, it dims our 
eyes with tears, and melts our hearts with 
adoration and with longing, that we too may 
be a member of that Bridal body when the 
saints go sweeping in. 

Oh, that we may be ready— "BE AD Y"— 
did I say? Ah! how much that little word 
means ! How it sobers our hearts and sends 
us flying to our Bibles and our knees, cry- 
ing "Jesus search me, Jesus fill me, use me, 
make just what Thou wouldst have me to be ; 
that I may be ready, steadfast, immovable, 
waiting for the coming of the Lord." 
"Ready," how solemnly Christ inscribed the 
Word in burning letters all along the path 
of life. 

"Be ye also ' Ready' for in such an hour as 
you think not the Son of man cometh." 
Ready ! — why me thinks the greatest calam- 
ity that could befall mankind, would be that 
of being found unprepared when Jesus 
swings Heaven's portals wide and comes to 
claim His own. 

Full well we know, the Bridegroom is not 
coming for a cold backslidden worldly bride 

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— a church whose garments are besmirched 
with earthly pride and sin, and merry mak- 
ing — whose heart is cold, whose eyes hang 
low with slumber — whose lamps have gone 
out for want of oil, and upon whose altars 
the fires of holy love and praise and zeal 
have died, leaving but the ashes of dead 
forms and ceremonies. 

He who once trod the sands of Palestine 
in his pure and seamless robe, is purer than 
the lilies, and fairer than the dawn, Holy, 
loving, sinless, true, He will call unto Him- 
self a bride, whose adoration and tireless 
running after, this the Christ, have wrought 
a marvelous transformation in Her life — 
His own attributes have been wrought out 
in Her, His loving tenderness of souls, His 
patience and forgiveness, His calm, sweet, 
powerful Word, all have now become a part 
of Her. For by His spirit and Her obedi- 
ent love, She has been transformed into His 
own image. Clad in pure garments of right- 
eousness, whose find needlework is wrought 
in Gold of Ophir, She shall be brought un- 
to the King and reign by His side in ever- 
lasting joy. 

Once the overcomers who compose this 
bridal body were sinners, unlovely, and far 
from God ; now they are saints of the Most 

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High — many members, from many lands 
and climes; made one in Christ, " baptized 
into one body." 

They are awakened virgins, whose vessels 
are filled with the oil of the Holy Spirit, and 
whose brightly burning lamps are as a city 
set upon a hill, dispelling the darkness, 
lighting the gloom, and guiding the wan- 
derer home. 

These are they "who love His appearing" 
whose ready waiting hearts have throbbed 
forth the soul cry of the Blessed Hope — 
"even so come Lord Jesus!" 

They are the overcomers, whose feet have 
learned to walk triumphantly o'er the rage- 
ing sea of life. 

Roll high, ye storm swept billows of the 
sea ! Rage and howl, ye tempests of the deep ! 
But o'er thy heaving, ever-changing bosom, 
o'er the waves of daily tests, and trials, and 
tribulations that sweep the sea of life, come 
God's fearless, trusting Peters. Their arms 
are outstretched toward the Christ who 
walks to meet him, from the distant heav- 
enly shore. Their undimmed, luminous eyes 
in which Faith has lighted a lamp and held 
it with a steady hand, are fixed on Jesus. 

THROUGH Christ they are victorious. 
IN Him are they strong. BY Him do they 

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overcome. He is their all in all — Saviour, 
Sanctifier, Healer, Pilot, Friend, and Lover. 
Soon, they look for His returning as Heav- 
en's Bridegroom, the Eternal King, whose 
Government is on His shoulders. 

Happy, happy people! What matter if 
thy pathway lead o'er land or sea? If thy 
journey o'er the waves be rough, full well 
thou knowest that on heaven's glassy sea, 
there reigns eternal calm. And O! That 
harbor is at hand — the Lord is near. Whai 
matter if thine earthly path is strewn with 
thorns that pierce the feet, and cause quick 
tears to spring unbidden to the eyes. Full 
well thou knowest that in yonder city bright, 
the streets are paved with gold. What mat- 
ter if the nights be long, and lone, and dark ? 
Tomorrow's sun will never set — its light will 
never fade. 

"Come!" says the Spirit. "Come" says 
the bride. "Come" cries the word of God. 
Come who-so-ever-will and join this happy 
throng who go with spotless robes, and burn- 
ing lamps to meet the coming King. They 
come by the way of Calvary, by way of the 
Upper Room, by way of a yielded, godly 
life, and tribulations' way. They are the 
over comers, who "abided" day by day. 

O sleeping heart awaken! Make haste, 

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rise up and shake thy garments from the 
dust. Jesus is coming. In an hour such as 
ye think not, He shall appear. Wash your 
robes in the blood of the Lamb. Receive ye 
the Holy Ghost. Then spend each waiting 
moment in winning other souls for Christ, 
that when He comes in the clouds of Heav- 
en bringing all of His angels to welcome you 
home, you may be found ready and waiting, 
bringing with you the precious jewels which 
you have won for Him. Amen. 



One Hundred Nine 



My Wonderful Vision 

It has been a hot and wearisome day at 
camp meeting. My duties had been long 
and strenuous. Now the last sermon had 
been preached, the last seeking soul faith- 
fully prayed for, but I still knelt on at the 
altar. The hour was so late, and I was so 
tired and empty. I felt I must ask the Lord 
to touch and bless me before I retired. 

"O, Jesus dear, precious Saviour, will 
you please lay your hand upon my head and 
bless even me? Let me see Thy beautiful 
face, and hear Thy tender voice ; strengthen, 
encourage and comfort me before I go." 

Almost immediately my prayer was an- 
swered. A sweet tranquility descended upon 
my spirit like a mantle from the skies, wrap- 
ping me in its holy stillness. How calm, 
rested and detached from my surroundings 
I felt. My body slipped to the floor before 
the altar, but I made no move to prevent it 
lest I disturb this "shut-in-ness" in the pres- 
ence of the Lord. Then I saw a vision — 

The whole world was wrapped in dark- 
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ness. One could not see an arm's length 
through the blackness of the night. 

But, hark ! out of the gloom there came a 
sound of voices sweetly singing : — 

"O Lord Jesus, how long, how long 
Ere we shout the glad song ? 
Christ returneth, Hallelujah! 
Hallelujah! A-M-E-N." 

At the sound of that great "Amen" a 
streak of lightning tore its way through the 
heavens, from the east unto the west, rend- 
ing them in twain. As I looked, the skies be- 
gan to roll apart as smoothly as folding 
doors upon their hinges. Shafts of heavenly 
light came streaming down through the 
opening, piercing the gloom of earth and il- 
luminating it with wondrous radiance. 
Through the aperture I saw descending, first 
the pierced feet, then the garments white as 
snow, then the extended hands, then the 
beautiful face and head of Jesus Christ, My 
Lord. He was surrounded by an innumer- 
able company of angels. In fact, quickly as 
a flash of lightning the entire heavens were 
filled with seraphic heavenly hosts, cher- 
ubim and seraphim, angels and archangels — 
surrounding the Christ of God — they were 
coming down, down, down in a beauty that 
beggars description. I thought of those great 

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sky-rockets bursting in the air in multi-col- 
ored glories and coming down in silent 
grandeur through the night. I know of noth- 
ing else with which to compare their won- 
derful descent. 

Every angel carried a musical instrument. 
Many there were having harps of various 
shapes and sizes. They were different from 
any that I have ever seen upon earth, and of 
marvelous workmanship. There were those 
who carried long silver trumpets and other 
musical instruments, the like of which I had 
never seen before. The first part of their 
glorious descent was made in silence. Then, 
suddenly, the Lord put His hand to His 
mouth and gave a shout, calling and awaken- 
ing His people. At the sound of His 
voice, every angel struck his harp of gold 
and sounded upon the silver trumpets. (For 
years people have talked about the lost 
chord, but oh, surely there had never been 
a chord of such melodious, wondrous beauty 
as this.) As they struck their harps, it 
seemed that the very stars of the morning 
broke forth into singing, and trembled be- 
neath its majesty. The earth began to vi- 
brate, and the dead arose from their graves. 
They came from the East, from the 
West, from the North, and from the South. 

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and ascended through the air in beau- 
tiful white garments that seemed to float 
about them ; their faces were turned upward 
and their hands extended to the resplen- 
dent heavens. 

Thy were rising higher and higher into 
the air to meet the central figure of the Lord 
as He came down with His host of angels. 
As the resurrected dead rose through the 
air, they seemed to gather in toward the cen- 
ter of the heavens,- taking their places as 
though by prearrangement in a shape that 
began to resemble a body. 

Then the Lord gave a second shout, and, 
at the sound of His voice, the angels again 
swept their golden harps and sounded upon 
their instruments — holding the chord until 
the very stars shook, the earth rocked and 
the mountains trembled. At that second 
shout, those who were living and remained 
upon the earth — whose garments were 
washed white, and whose hearts were look- 
ing for the coming of the Lord — were caught 
up together with those resurrected from the 
graves to meet Him in the air. They came 
from every direction — from mountains, val- 
leys, plains, and from the Islands of the Sea, 
to take their places in the Body. Some were 
in the head, some in the shoulders, some in 

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the arms of the Body, some in the feet ; for 
though there are many members, there is 
but one Body. (See 1 Cor. 12.) What a 
picture ! They were going up, and the Lord 
was coming down. Soon they would meet 
in the air, and what a meeting that would 
be ! As I gazed upon this scene, I was over- 
whelmed, and my heart burst forth into the 
cry: 

"Oh, dear Jesus, aren't you going to take 
me? Jesus, you know I love you; I have 
been waiting and looking for you so long. 
O Jesus, surely you are not going to forget 
me. O Lord, take me ! ' 9 

Suddenly, I found myself running up a 
steep and rugged hill as fast as my feet 
could take me. Once I stumbled and fell 
(that must have been the time I almost back- 
slid, and got out of the Lord's work, running 
from Mnevah to Tarshish) , but I arose and 
started to run again. Up and up I ran, and 
this time, praise the Lord, I did not stum- 
ble — up and up I went, until at last I had 
reached the top of the hill, but instead of 
going down the other side I went right on 
up, hallelujah! 

The Bride was still rising to meet the 
Bridegroom, and I was rising too. What a 
wonderful sensation — sweeping through the 

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air ! All weights and fetters laid aside — ris- 
ing to meet the Lord. As I went up, how- 
ever, I began to weep again, crying : 

"O Lord, is there no place for me in the 
Body % It looks as though 'twere completed 
without me?" 

But as I drew near, I saw that there was 
a little place unfilled in the foot. I slipped 
in and just fitted there. Glory to Jesus! 
When the Lord gives us a vision, He does 
not tell us how high and important we will 
be, but shows us our place at His precious 
feet. It may be that the Lord will permit 
me to be a part of the foot of the glorious 
running, soul- winning Bride, until He shall 
appear to take us to Himself for evermore. 

With the Body completed, I seemed to be 
standing at a distance again. I saw the Bride 
and Bridegroom meet. Her arms were ex- 
tended up to Him; His arms reached out 
and clasped her to His bosom. Oh, that em- 
brace! Oh, that meeting in the air! How 
can I describe it ? The angels were playing 
softly now upon their harps. How wonder- 
ful the music was ! They talk about Mendel- 
ssohn 's " Wedding March," but ah, you wait 
until you hear our wedding march at the 
meeting in the air. The Bride, however, 
seemed to be listening to nothing but the 

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voice of the Bridegroom. I saw Him wiping 
the tears from her eyes, and saying : 

" There shall be no more death, neither 
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be 
any more pain; for the former things are 
passed away." 

Now they were going up together — higher 
and higher they rose, melting through the 
starry floor of heaven, disappearing in the 
distance as the heavens rolled together 
again. Upon the earth there descended a 
deep, thick darkness — a hundred times 
blacker than it had been before. 'Twas a 
famine for the Word of God. But up in 
heaven a light was shining brighter than the 
noon-day sun. Oh, how bright and glorious 
it was — the mellow, golden light of a new- 
born sunrise seemed to rest upon everything, 
tinting each spire and dome with a border of 
gold and crimson. Here all was life, music 
and movement. The greatest day ever known 
in heaven or upon earth had dawned. The 
wedding day had come ! 

The angels had formed a great, long aisle 
leading from the heavenly gates to the 
Throne of pearl, upon which sat One so won- 
derful, so dazzlingly glorious, that my eyes 
could not gaze upon him. Line upon line, 
row upon row, tier upon tier — the angels 

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stood or were suspended in midair at either 
side of the aisle thus formed. Above this 
aisle the little cherumbim formed an arch 
singing sweetly and playing upon tiny 
harps. 

As they played the wedding march, down 
the aisle came the Bride and Bridegroom. 
She was leaning upon His arm and looking 
up into His face. Oh, the love, the joy, the 
hopes fulfilled that were written upon her 
fair and lovely countenance. 'Twas as 
though she were saying : 

"Thou beautiful Bridegroom, Thou 
Prince of Peace, Thou Pearl of Great Price, 
Thou Rose of Sharon and Lily of the Valley 
— I love Thee, oh, I love Thee ! How long I 
have been looking forward to this day, how 
I have yearned to see Thy face, to hear Thy 
voice. True, I have seen Thee through 
a glass darkly, but now, oh now, my Saviour, 
slain Lamb of Calvary, I see Thee face to 
face! Oh, Jesus, to think that I shall live 
with Thee forever and forever ! I will never 
leave Thee more, but I shall lean upon Thine 
arm, rest upon Thy bosom, sit upon Thy 
Throne, and praise Thee while the endless 
ages roll. 

As the Bride looked into His face, Jesus, 
the Bridegroom, was looking down and smil- 

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ing upon her clad in her white robes with 
her misty veil floating about her. Oh, that 
look in His eyes, that tender expression 
upon His face. 'Twas as though He were 
saying : 

"Oh, my love, my dove, my undefiled, thou 
art fair ; there is no spot in thee. Before you 
loved Me I loved you. Yea, I have loved you 
with an everlasting love. I loved you when 
you were deep in sin ; I loved you when you 
were far away. I loved you enough to leave 
My Father's home to go forth to seek to 
save, to rescue, to draw you to Myself. I 
loved you so much that I died for you — I 
died to redeem you, and to fill you with My 
Spirit. Oh, my Bride, you have been faith- 
ful. Coming out of great tribulation you have 
washed your robes and made them white in 
the blood of the Lamb. You have endured 
hardness as a good soldier, and now through 
Me you are more than conqueror. How long, 
how long, I have waited for this day when 
you should be caught up unto my side. 

Oft have your feet been pierced with 
thorns, but here the streets are paved with 
gold. Oft the way was rugged and steep 
and your tears have flowed unbidden 
but now behold, the last enemy, even 
death, is conquered. Nevermore shall a 

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shadow fall across your pathway nor a tear- 
drop dim your eye. Forever and forever 
you shall dwell with Me in the presence of 
My Father and the holy angels, — My Bride, 
My Wife f orevermore. " 

As they made their way up the aisle and 
neared the Throne, the angels broke forth 
into soft, sweet, singing : 

"Let us be glad and rejoice, and give 
honor to Him : for the marriage of the Lamb 
is come, and his wife hath made herself 
ready. And to her was granted that she 
should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and 
white: for the linen is the righteousness of 
the saints." 

As they walked into the brilliant light that 
sat upon the Throne, my eyes were blinded 
with the glory, and the vision faded from my 
sight, but it is indelibly stamped upon my 
mind. 

Oh, I am looking forward to His coming, 
His glorious coming, and the day wherein 
the Bride shall be presented to the Bride- 
groom. Are you preparing for His coming ? 
Would you be ready if the clouds roll apart 
and the heavens cleave in twain, and you 
should hear Him descending with a shout 
just now? If not, come to His feet today, 

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fall upon your knees in contrition before 
Him, and cry : 

"Oh, Lamb of God, I come. Help me to 
yield my life completely to Thee ; make me 
all that Thou wouldst have me to be ; cleanse 
my heart; fill me with Thy Spirit; fill my 
vessel with oil. Help me to bring others with 
me that, when Thou shalt appear, I shall see 
Thee and be as Thou art." 

Then rising from your feet with heart 
made pure and garments clean, your voice 
will be added to the swelling chorus : 

"Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus, come 
quickly ! Thy Bride is waiting and longing 
for Thee. 9 ' 



One Hundred Twenty 



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